Sheep Meadow Press

Famous quotes containing the words sheep, meadow and/or press:

    You shall not watch your neighbor’s ox or sheep straying away and ignore them; you shall take them back to their owner.
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 22:1.

    Beautiful, wide-spread,
    fire upon leaf,
    what meadow yields
    so fragrant a leaf
    as your bright leaf?
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.
    Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)