Flocks Quotes - Page 6

• The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but that one soul to bless. How my heart admires the concentration of all the Godhead and humanity of Christ in his search after each sheep of his flock.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1885). “Sermons of Rev. C.H. Spurgeon of London ...”

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• Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.

  Gerry Spence

  Sheep, Government, Giving

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• Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Life, Believe In Yourself, Sheep

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• New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn't a time to push your beliefs. You don't see me handing out pot to kids...Okay, well not the little kids.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Jesus, Halloween

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.95, Penguin

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• Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

  Stephen King

  Skulls, Anxiety, Panic

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.

  Garry Wills

  Ambition, Thoughtful, Ideas

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• The old priest Peter Gilligan
  Was weary night and day;
  For half his flock were in their beds,
  Or under green sods lay.

  William Butler Yeats

  Night, Bed, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.137, Penguin

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• Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religion, Atheism, Shepherds

  "CNN Live" with Fionnuala Sweeney, edition.cnn.com. April 24, 2005.

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• Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

  Johnny Carson

  Hero, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

  John Milton

  Eye, Rivers, Clouds

  c.1631 L'Allegro, l.69-76.

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• I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
  It vexes me to choose another guide:
  Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
  Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Blow, Wind

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.211, The Floating Press

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• From the shaken tower
  A flock of bells take flight,
  And go with the hour.

  Alice Meynell

  Time, Towers, Bells

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• I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

  William A. Drake

  Death, Son, Sheep

  "Fictional character: Baron Felix von Geigern". "Grand Hotel", www.imdb.com. 1932.

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• The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

  Edgar Guest

  Winning, Goal, Soul

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Things That Haven't Been Done Before”

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• The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Home, Night, Men

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• There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

  Winston Churchill

  Sheep, Way, Butchers

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• Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it was getting harder. Coupled with the whole “naval this, and naval that,” with its undeniable belly-button connotations, we were essentially turning into a sugar-jacked, sleep-deprived flock of incoherent, silly, recombinant-DNA goofballs. This was not going to end well.

  James Patterson

  Silly, Sleep, Dna

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• I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.

  James Patterson

  Decision, Leader, Chaos

  "Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel". Book by James Patterson, February 14, 2011.

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• He says you don't often find angels in places like happy homes and rich people's backyard parties. He says that angels flock to places like hospitals and homelss shelters and jails, because those people realize they need help. And do they are able to believe in strange phenomena. Funny how the world is backward. The really comfortable people don't always see much supernaturally, and to the ones who have to struggle, it's, like, breathing in their faces. The first are last... and the last are first.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye.

  David Benioff

  Beautiful, Powerful, Distance

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.130, Penguin

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• Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he's seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don't even know what to call. And girls are going through puberty much earlier; and kids are allergic to just about everything, and asthma is out of control. Everyone knows it's our foods... Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Growing Up, Kids

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

  Biz Stone

  Moving, Ideas, Bird

  "Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone Interview at Wisdom 2.0" by Soren Gordhamer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lying, Eye, Bird

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• I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Rose, Bird, Pits

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• In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.

  John Banville

  Cities, Venice, Squares

  John Banville (2011). “The Newton Letter”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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