Quotes and Sayings About Shepherds
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Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
-- Alan Coren -
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.
-- Allan Bloom -
I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.
-- Amy-Jill Levine -
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
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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 -
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures: It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz.
-- Bob Phillips -
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
-- Booth Tarkington -
Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her joy.
-- Cecil Murphey -
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My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the ’70s they blamed Dobermans, in the ’80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the ’90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.
-- Cesar Millan -
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.
-- Destin Sparks -
The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
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I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
-- Dustin Diamond -
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
-- Earl Derr Biggers -
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
-- Edmund Waller -
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.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
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They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
-- George Foreman -
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 -
Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
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O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.
-- Hannah Hurnard -
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds
-- Henri La Fontaine -
Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
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Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
-- Jakob Bohme -
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 -
It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.
-- Jefferson Smith -
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For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.
-- Joan Miro