Sheep Shearing Quotes

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

My girlfriend comes from a farming background and I spend a lot of time at her farm doing farming stuff. When you're pulling lambs out, or weighing them or worming them or doing whatever you do to sheep you're not thinking about Brett Lee.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.