Shepherd Quotes

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

I'll never forget when we played Shepherd's Bush in London. We played 'I Run To You', and we put the mic out for the last chorus, and you could hear them singing the chorus with the beautiful accent that they have.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.