Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat"
Goats quotes
Goats
81 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
"Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!"
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo"
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"Redheaded women buck like goats."
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"Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!"
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"We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English."
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"It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom."
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"There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better.""
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"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
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"Goat screaming videos are hilarious."
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"The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond."
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"Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season."
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"Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily."
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"No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere."
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"No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat."
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"Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water."
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"Christ was born in a manger, laying down amongst donkeys ang goats. He was given gifts of incense and perfume. No kidding."
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"The lust of the goat is the bounty of God."
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"It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have."
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"A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense."
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"Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep."
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"I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much."
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