Herd Quotes

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

I don't want to follow the herd.

I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.