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Quotes About Flock

The shepherd's fortune is in his sheep.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Instead, each bird is interacting with up to seven close neighbors, making individual movement decisions based on maintaining velocity and distance from fellow flock members and copying how sharply a neighbor turns, so that a group of, say, four hundred birds can veer in another direction in a little over half a second. What emerges is almost instantaneous ripples of movement in what appears to be one living curtain of bird.
~ Jennifer Ackerman
The meteor of birds
~ Emily Dickinson
Birds of a feather will gather together.
~ Robert Burton
There a few forces in politics harder to resist than a feeling that something is inevitable, for humans move as a flock, and will always rush like sheep toward the safety of a winner.
~ Robert Harris
The lawless are the ones to scorch, rather than the just. The lawless work alone; the righteous work amongst their flock. Do the will of our Father; we all come from Him! Our Father is sublime; His will is beneficent. He has watched over you so you may find peace.
~ Alan Jacobs
14 Yo soy el buen Pastor: y conozco mis ovejas, y las ovejas mías me conocen a mí. 15 Así como el Padre me conoce a mí, así yo conozco al Padre: y doy mi vida por mis ovejas. 16 Tengo también otras ovejas,
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
I have learned that a man who counts himself a shepherd is not worthy to be a member of a flock.
~ Andrew Vachss
It's very important to respect the conversation between a priest and the members of their flock.
~ Erin O'Toole
flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is--Birds of a feather flock together.
~ Lewis Carroll
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
~ Paul Eldridge
Sheep are in.
~ Ann M. Martin
You know what 'congregate' means? It's from the Latin. 'Greg' means herd. 'Con' means with. We're with our herd.
~ Ann Packer
I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me — just as the Father knows me and I know the Father — and I lay down my life for the sheep. JOHN 10:14 – 15
~ Anne Graham Lotz
The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
My dragons!' she insisted. 'She has finally found a flock to join,' he observed to me. 'Her own kind always pecked her. But the dragons have taken her in.' ...'If a flock of crows is a murder, what should we call a group of dragons?' ... 'A catastrophe of dragons.
~ Robin Hobb
Plato and his disciples approach,' announced irreverent Teddy, as Mr. March came in with several young men and women about him; for the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Having shot down a number, some of which were anly wounded, the whole flock swept repeatedly around their prostrate companions, and again settled on a low tree, within twenty yards of the spot where I stood. At each successive discharge, though showers of them fell, yet the affection of the survivors seemed rather to increase; for after a few circuits around the place, they again alighted near me.
~ Ron Rash
Birds of a feather always ended up sticking together.
~ Rosa Montero
I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Halpin was pretty generally deprecated as an intellectual black sheep who was likely at any moment to disgrace the flock by bleating in metre. The Tennessee Fraysers were a practical folk - not practical in the popular sense of devotion to sordid pursuits, but having a robust contempt for any qualities unfitting a man for the wholesome vocation of politics.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A flock isn't such a bad thing if you belong, but a few hundred starlings will tear an unlucky martin to feathers if it crosses their path.
~ Joe Hill
Through the way where hope is guiding, Hark, what peaceful music rings; Where the flock, in Thee confiding, Drink of joy from deathless springs. Theirs is beauty's fairest pleasure; Theirs is wisdom's holiest treasure. Thou dost ever lead Thine own In the love of joys unknown.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
He was accustomed to sheep, but had never happened to meet them in a wood before, and disliked it. He retired, slowly at first, then fast; and the flock, in a dense mass, pressed after him. His terror increased. He turned and screamed at their long white faces; and still they came on, all stuck together, like some horrible jell—
~ E.M. Forster