All Quotes by Shepherd
“The shepherd adorns the plain with his ewes and lambs.”
“Ah! what is love? It is a pretty thing,What lady would not love a shepherd swain?”
“I am like a sheep who has no reliable shepherd; there is no reliable herdsman to lead me on.”
“This battle fares like to the morning's war,Can neither call it perfect day, nor night.”
“I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”
“The star that bids the shepherd fold,Now the top of heaven doth hold.”
“A man's personal god is a shepherd who finds pasturage for the man. Let him lead him like sheep to the food they can eat.”
“Youthful Utu chose the shepherd in his heart. Years of plenty are assigned to Culgi, the trustworthy shepherd, the king, as his fate. From the shrine in Nibru, Enlil bestowed this on the trustworthy shepherd, whose fate is determined by Utu.”