Sheep Boy

Famous quotes containing the words sheep and/or boy:

    This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,
    That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte.
    Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte,
    And this figure he added eek therto,
    That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    I was born a mechanic, and made a barrel before I was ten years old. The cooper told my father, “Fanny made that barrel, and has done it quicker and better than any boy I have had after six months’ training.” My father looked at it and said, “What a pity that you were not born a boy so that you could be good for something. Run into the house, child, and go to knitting.”
    Frances D. Gage (1808–1884)