Flocks Quotes

• I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

  Evita Peron

  Sparrows

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• The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see.

  Ken Kesey

  Couple, Rip, Party

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SparkNotes Literature Guide)”, SparkNotes

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• In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.30, St. Martin's Press

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• Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

  John Webster

  Eagles, Crow, Together

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.161, Manchester University Press

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• In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Men, Order, Tree

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• While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around.

  Nahum Tate

  Angel, Night, Shepherds

  'Supplement to the New Version of the Psalms' (1700) 'While Shepherds Watched'

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• He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Law, Voice

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Adventure, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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• It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Poor

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• We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

  Henning Mankell

  Wings, Bird, Shooting

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• We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Stupid, Order, Giving

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• The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

  Theda Bara

  Ghouls, Good Woman, Vampire

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• Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Leadership, Sheep, Society

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1749). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell”, p.55

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• It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Sheep, Genius

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• The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

  John Owen

  Firsts, Duty, Pastor

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.74

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• Birds of a feather really do flock together.

  John C. Maxwell

  Bird, Leader, Together

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Moving, People

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• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Rejection, Void, Fantasy

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”

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• Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Hands, Tyrants

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• Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

  Aaron Hill

  Courage, Numbers, Lions

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• Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

  Francis Beaumont

  Running, Envy, Fruit

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

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Military, Reading

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Sheep, Driven

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251

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• I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Sheep, Government, Sides

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• When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, People, Enjoy

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