Shepherd Quotes

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. (Martin Heidegger)
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. View quote
Winston Churchill
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. View quote
Tiberius
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. View quote
Earl Derr Biggers
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower. View quote
Dustin Diamond
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage-anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there. View quote
Henry Lawson
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. View quote
John Milton
The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls, the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. (Propertius)
The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter. View quote
Robert Greene
God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character. View quote
John Ortberg
Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
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. View quote
Ken Blanchard
He answered some governors who had written to recommend an increase in the burden of provincial taxation, with: "A good shepherd shears his flock; he does not flay them." View quote
Suetonius
A lad changed to a shrub in spring, the shrub into a shepherd boy, A fine hair to a lyre string, snow into snow on hair piled high. View quote
Jaroslav Seifert
This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I. View quote
Thomas Hardy
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. View quote
Haruki Murakami
You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need. (Max Lucado)
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
To the governors who recommended burdensome taxes for his provinces, he [Tiberius] wrote in answer that it was the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not skin it. View quote
Tiberius
Delacroix spoke of the Greek coin being built from the center out. Vermeer has painted in this way, according to the principles of mass... How beautifully they are drawn – Vermeer does not just make a leaf and place it in the design, he relates space and leaf. [in the painting of Vermeer: 'Allegory on the New Testament']. That drapery – it is abstract – observe how this shape [a space between a shepherd and the tree] curves around the center space while the tree counter-curves opposite it, cutting an egg shape.... the spaces on the carpet that carry no figuration are, in fact, shapes of vital importance in building the whole.. View quote
Arshile Gorky
A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hellAnd bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said. Children in love with them brought early flowers And scattered them about, no two alike. View quote
Wallace Stevens