#shepherd

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

Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak´s flute. It came from the direction of a small dark object under the hedge - a shephard´s hut - now presenting an outline to which an unintiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use. ... Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that there was some charm in this life he led, he stood still after looking at the sky as a useful instrument, and regarded it in an appreciative spirit, as a work of art superlatively beautiful. For a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man. ... Oak´s motions, though they had a quiet energy, were slow, and their deliberateness accorded well with his occupation. Fitness being the basis of beauty, nobody could have denied tha his steady swings and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace. His special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static. ... Oak was an intensely human man: indee, his humanity tore in pieces any politic intentions of his which bordered on strategy, and carried him on as by gravitation. A shadow in his life had always been that his flock should end in mutton - that a day could find a shepherd an arrant traitor to his gentle sheep. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#freedom #gabriel #gabriel-oak #independence #nature

I'll never forget when we played Shepherd's Bush in London. We played 'I Run To You', and we put the mic out for the last chorus, and you could hear them singing the chorus with the beautiful accent that they have. ↗

— Hillary Scott

#beautiful #bush #chorus #could #forget

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#corpse #flock #innovation #sheep #shepherd

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

#german #go #god #jack #many

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

— Martin Heidegger

#beings #lord #man #shepherd

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#good #got #instead #looking #shepherd

All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them. ↗

— George Foreman

#dogs #fly #german #germany #i

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#building #bush #cheque #cost #donated

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

— James Hogg

#land #open #scotland #shepherd #whole