Herd Quotes
203 quotes by 172 authors
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Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I…
— Erik Naggum
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The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of…
— Gene Spafford
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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
— Ben Hecht
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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
— Ben Horowitz
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There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go…
— Zhuangzi
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We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes…
— Jill McCorkle
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We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a…
— Tracy K. Smith
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves…
— Thomas Gray
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I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful…
— Walter Scott
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Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a…
— Linda Ellerbee
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Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
— Loren Eiseley
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Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to…
— Lindsey Graham
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With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break…
— Og Mandino
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If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by…
— Robert Morley
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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…
— Aaron Hill
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If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not…
— Edward Bernays
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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
— Larry McMurtry
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It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood…
— John Grant
Who Wrote These Herd Quotes
172 authors contributed a total of 203 Herd Quotes, led by these top contributors: