#shepherd

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#bush #community #crime #definitely #friends

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#poor #prayed #rain #sailors #shepherds

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#beings #lord #man #shepherd

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

#dignified #government #hard #looking #many

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#agreed #definition #destroyer #drives #him

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. ↗

— Troy Perry

#i #knows #lord #shepherd

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. ↗

— Ken Blanchard

#benefit #leaders #many #people #responsibility

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

#ancient #back #being #convention #due