39 Quotes About Shepherds

What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let’s get the flock out of here.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

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.

What to change your life? Begin by saying, "The Lord is my shepherd."

Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.

As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.