Quotes with shepherd

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

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  • Stendhal The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Bob Peterson After my wife and I were married, we obtained a rescue dog from a family that didn't want her anymore. She was a beautiful Collie/Shepherd mix named 'Precious.' It then came to pass that our first marital 'debate' was whether we should change the dog's name away from the same name used by the wacky villain in 'Silence of the Lambs.'
    Bob Peterson
    American filmmaker, animator and screenwriter
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  • A. J. Liebling As a result of its generous stand, the University of Chicago's undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children's Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.
    Chicago: The Second City (2004) p.110
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Anna H. Shaw Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
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  • Edward Shepherd Mead Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
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  • Northrop Frye 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
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Sextus Propertius The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
    Sextus Propertius
    Roman poet (47 - 15)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Cybill Shepherd We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Winston Churchill Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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