Shepherds Quotes
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If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.
— Rex Smith
A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.
[Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.] — Suetonius
[Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.] — Suetonius
I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.
— David Letterman
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
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
— Tory Burch
Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.
— Khalil Gibran
Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
— Alan Coren
But governments and officials are not very good shepherds.
— Rebecca Solnit
The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse.
— Max Von Stephanitz
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
— Charles Spurgeon
Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was never a keeper of sheep
— Alberto Caeiro
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
— Henri La Fontaine
It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.
— W. Phillip Keller
A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.
— Destin Sparks
They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves." I
— J.D. Vance
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
— Elizabeth I
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
Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.
— Max Lucado
I hang around shepherds because I can't talk to sheep.
— James Jean-Pierre
Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.
— Jim Crace
In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.
— Paulo Coelho
If a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds.
— Umberto Eco
When Christ returns, and only then, will the angel's message to the shepherds be totally fulfilled: Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.
— David Jeremiah
Never camp by the edge of a waterhole"; "don't screw with hippos"; "baboons are like German shepherds on crack";
— Marilyn Johnson
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
— George Foreman
This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust the Lord. He is the good shepherd. He knows His sheep. And His sheep know His voice.
— M. Russell Ballard
The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?
— George Herbert
If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
— Mercedes Lackey
Support your priests with your love and prayers, that they may always be shepherds after Christ's heart
— Pope Francis
The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.
— Paulo Coelho
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.
— Max Von Stephanitz
There is one fold and one shepherd.
— Pope Boniface VIII
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
— Robert Macfarlane
Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us.
— Romano Guardini
Only bad shepherds use entrances other than the door. Didn't your mother teach you anything?"
"Yes, she did. That you're a troublemaker. — Cindy Woodsmall
"Yes, she did. That you're a troublemaker. — Cindy Woodsmall
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
I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.
— Ted Shackelford
History needs shepherds, not butchers.
— Terry Pratchett
I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.
— Martin Compston
Shepherds lift their heads,
not to gaze at a new light
but to hear angels. — Richelle E. Goodrich
not to gaze at a new light
but to hear angels. — Richelle E. Goodrich
The Shepherds and the Angels
— Anonymous
Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.
— Charles Boardman Hawes
I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.
— Amy-Jill Levine
There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
— John Paul Warren
The only gift is a portion of thyself ... the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.
— Henry David Thoreau
Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.
— Cecil Frances Alexander
Good shepherds love their sheep and spare no effort when leading them to green pastures and clear water.
— Alexander Strauch
Mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush
— Spike Milligan
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.
— Paulo Coelho
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity.
— Pope Benedict XVI
What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Replace ropes with bullets. Hound dogs with German shepherds. A gray uniform with a bulletproof vest. Nothing is new.
— Jesmyn Ward
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.
— Dillon Burroughs
It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.
— Jefferson Smith