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Without this flock, I would be worthless. Without the people in this flock, I'd be empty. Without the people who started this flock, I'd be dead. — Shannon A. Thompson

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings. — Henning Mankell

A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.
[Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.] — Suetonius

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. — Marshall McLuhan

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind. — Virgil

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes. — Juvenal

Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray. — Robert Bridges

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word — John Owen

Remember the band, Flock of Seagulls? They had their van stolen. I was like, They still have a van? — Craig Ferguson

There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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. — Aaron Hill

I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms. — George Crabbe

If instead you feed the wolf and tame him and turn his pups into your guard dogs, they will protect the flocks when the pack comes ravening. — George R R Martin

Vast flocks of fieldfares netted the sky, turning it to something strangely like a sixteenth-century sleeve sewn with pearls. — Helen Macdonald

When I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them. — Margaret Halsey

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. — John Greenleaf Whittier

While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around. — Nahum Tate

If you think you can lead your flock of sheeple and peeps to some glorified noodle fest on the mall, you got another thing coming, mister. — Stephen Colbert

It is from work that men are rich in flocks and wealthy, and a working man is much dearer to the immortals — Hesiod

It is entirely possible that you get unpredictable behavior out of predictable rules. — Frank Heppner

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it! — Tiberius

Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already — Michel Faber

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news. — Daniel Kahneman

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously. — Charles Dickens

What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let's get the flock out of here. — Mel Gibson

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind. — Homer

Windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks. — Teresa Of Avila

I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating! — John Keats

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. — John Muir

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep. — Alexander Pope

We live without power of law, like flocks of ravens
they come and sweep over the land. — Alexander Pushkin

crows going in flocks and wolves in packs, but the lion and the eagle are solitaires. — Lionel Fisher

I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons. — Janny Wurts

If anything belongs in the Shepherd of the Night's flocks, lad, it's Trollocs. — Robert Jordan

Ground the coursing of flocks run wild. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down. — Daniel Dennett

I believe the general consensus is the bigger it is, the more women flock to you. I guess its a good thing mine is HUGE! — Zach Braff

Most animal species stuck together in packs or schools, flocks or herds. But human beings separated themselves and sat behind locked doors. — Mia Zabrisky

When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come, — George R R Martin

Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college.
Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats — Scott Frost