In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No… — Henry George Copy Share Image
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled.… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“On city harp strings ‘neath cotton ball clouds, Pigeon to pigeon their stories they sing, Wafting flocks gather in soft, cooing crowds;… — Marie Helen Abramyan Copy Share Image
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner;… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In case you guys didn't catch last week's episode, I'm out of the flock," I informed them. "Angel has no allegiance to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
As a maternal figure, I always try to keep the flock safe, of course. But I admit, it did my heart proud… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is important to meet people where they are. It reminds me of yoga, to which people may flock for the physical… — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep… — Pope Paul III Copy Share Image
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best… — Plato Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo. — Charley Harper Copy Share Image
The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging… — John Milton Copy Share Image
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Where food trucks are concerned, nothing's better than having a whole flock of them at one location. Competition not only improves the… — Robert Sietsema Copy Share Image
The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image