Shepherd Quotes

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.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Liberty, Same

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

Art, Sheep, Innovation

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

Soldier, Seaman, Stories

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

Same, Sheep, Interests

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

Good, Looking, German

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

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

Human, Lord, Beings

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

Leader, Sheep, Follower

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
Adam Carolla

Funny, Enough, Joy

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

God, Stop, Burn

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

Whole, Worth, Dog

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.
Roger Daltrey

Friends, Rich, Poor

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.
Ken Blanchard

Act, Leaders, Sheep

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.
James Bovard

Government, Hard, Looking

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.
Ashley Judd

Life, Alone, Living

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.
Northrop Frye

Stupid, Human, Fact

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
Earl Derr Biggers

Excellent, Wolf, Careless

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.
Joely Richardson

Money, Mother, School

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.
Hillary Scott

Beautiful, Forget, Put

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

Gay, Lord, Knows

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

Made, Before, Realize

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?
James Hogg

Good, May, Able

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

Good, Duty, Sheep

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