Sentences with word «goatherd»

archeologists... she also fails to mention that it is a book written by goatherds who didn't know why the sun came up in the morning and were this god to exist, believing in him or worshiping him would have little effect as his adherents are subject to his «will» so that our needs and desires are fulfilled at an equal rate to hoping and wishing.

I had never seen a stage production of «The Sound of Music» before, and the [dis] placement of songs cheesed me a little with the repetitive «My Favorite Things,» the too - soon «Do - Re-Mi,» and the puppet-less «The Lonely Goatherd.»

Synopsis: An accident connects four groups of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, C...

Oh gee, once upon a time, an uneducated Jewish goatherd decided that he needed to make up a story to explain away all of man's problems.

It may be difficult to spot the tents and goatherds among the newsreaders and Coronation Street cast members, but this is a 21st - century parable of the story of Abraham.

There is a good deal of merit in the suggestion once made to me that I write a book on The Christian Goatherd to match my book The Christian Shepherd.

Biblical just means that the people who wrote the bible... those clever goatherds... didn't understand the natural processes of this planet like earthquakes and tsunamis so they atributed them to god...»cause they didn't know jack... now of course we know better and morons in the media use terms like «bibical» to add to the confusion and terror of those simple - minded folks who still believe in this ancient semetic mythology

Oh well when those ignorant goatherds said «god created the heavens and the earth» they may not have been able to see 13 billion light years away into distant and very ancient galaxies, but they MUST HAVE MEANT oh just everything including THAT.

The story of Kaldi, the 9th - century Ethiopian goatherd who discovered coffee when he noticed how excited his goats became after eating the beans from a coffee plant, did not appear in writing until 1671 and is probably apocryphal.

These were hardly goatherds, and with no coalition soldiers reported on the hill, consensus emerged that the four figures were insurgents.

Sent from Bagram Air Force Base — under the command of Lieutenant Commander Erik Kristensen (an especially humorless Eric Bana)-- to either kill or capture Taliban commander Ahmad Shah (Yousuf Azami), who Berg introduces decapitating a hapless villager, the guys hit a snag when their hiding place is stumbled upon by a couple of goatherds with a walkie - talkie.

The retreat sits in the bowl of a wild mountain valley, surrounded by perfumed herbs, wild birds, and the tinkling of bells from distant goatherds.

George P. Mitchell, the son of a Greek goatherd who capped a career as one of the most prominent independent oilmen in the United States by unlocking immense natural gas and petroleum resources trapped in shale rock formations, died on Friday in Galveston, Tex..

Synopsis: An accident connects four groups of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes her young charges across a border without parental permission.

Take a bow, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Rodgers and Hammerstein, director Robert Wise, all the warbling Von Trapp children and even that saucy, if wooden, yodelling goatherd — you created a movie that is inordinately beloved.

To spout out tired old meaningless phrases from an ancient book written by ignorant goatherds?

«The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd.

With T. Pratchett, I tend to wonder how the world would have turned out with a Goatherd, rather than a Shepherd, leading us.

Many of the central characters of fantasy are country people, like those in Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion tales and other Welsh fantasies, The wizard Ged of Le Gum's Earthsea Trilogy is the son of a bronzesmith on a rustic island and is referred to as «goatherd.»

In the Ethiopian highlands, where the legend of Kaldi, the goatherd, originated, coffee trees grow today as they have for centuries.

The two young men playing the Moroccan goatherds (Said Tarchani and Boubker Ait El Caid) are also very impressive indeed.

We are so accustomed to seeing duplicates and triplicates of farmhands, housewives, and goatherds that they fail even to draw notice, except among strangers.

The Raven owned the worst land, which was the dry, rocky hillside around the fort, and took a cut from the goatherds who went up there to graze with their flocks.

The shepherd (or goatherd.

As hard as yodel teacher, Christian Eder, tried to tease out a yodel from our gang of five women, we certainly did not sound anything like Julie Andrews when she yodelled «a lonely goatherd» in the 1965 film The Sound of Music.

The display includes Claude's Landscape with a Goatherd and Goats and Ruisdael's Windmills near Haarlem, which are shown alongside Constable's direct copies.