Top 82 Quotes About Herds
#1. Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.
William Shakespeare
#2. the freedom money gives the poor man is nothing to the freedom money has given the rich man. With money rich men ceased to be tied to lands, houses, stores, flocks and herds. They could change the nature and locality of their possessions with an unheard-of freedom.
H.G.Wells
#3. You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.
Ron Suskind
#4. Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
John Gay
#5. Sheep all together, cars all together, people all together, crows all together, ants all together! Everywhere is full of herds! To breath comfortably, to feel free, to think better and to find the beauties of the unknown paths leave your herd! In whichever herd you are in, leave it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. We have Beast, our Hungarian sheep dog. And he is so talented. He's so smart. He knows his daily schedule. He has an extracurricular activity. He goes herding. He herds sheep. And we've been told that he's quite gifted.
Priscilla Chan
#7. The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#8. It was the rare souls full of hope who showed the world what could be done; and then came the thundering herds, those doubters and naysayers who had once put up barriers, now shoving everyone out of their way.
Hugh Howey
#9. Your people will be torn from the land for this, Tartar. Your gers will burn and your herds will be scattered.
Conn Iggulden
#10. The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.
Richard Leakey
#11. Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks
those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Don't be such a dumbass, Gabe. Koalas don't travel in herds. They move in heaps. Much like emus move in ripples, and kangaroos travel in photo-ops.
Elle Lothlorien
#13. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles Mackay
#14. He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting and crude.
Agatha Christie
#15. Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.
Burt Reynolds
#16. those losses were the result of wild game, such as elk herds eating haystacks meant
C.J. Box
#17. A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.
Genghis Khan
#18. Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss
W. H. Auden
#19. They laugh at this, the idea that one might keep herds of friendly deer or elk that walk happily to their slaughter whenever it's time for the human to eat meat. Some ask openly if there aren't consequences of a life so easy to live.
Joseph Boyden
#20. I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. The Bat sets free - The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn
Rudyard Kipling
#22. I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.
Shana Alexander
#24. By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.
Marvin Minsky
#25. Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.
Bertrand Russell
#26. It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
Mary McCarthy
#27. Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences.
Tom King
#28. Man is a solitary animal condemned to live in herds.
Peter G. Roe
#29. [For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.
Lewis H. Lapham
#30. But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
To closer shades the panting flocks remove;
Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
Alexander Pope
#31. Thus with the year
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.
John Milton
#32. He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#33. It was unnerving, the way people moved in herds. Especially when you were the prey.
Chris Russell
#34. To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.
George Schaller
#35. Because predators tend to eat the weakest of a species, they keep the remaining population strong. Without predators, herds become weak and disabled. In contrast, when humans hunt animals for trophies, they kill the strongest of the species, thereby weakening the herd.
Stacey O'Brien
#36. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don't have to eat ... eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
Theo Jansen
#37. Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
H.L. Mencken
#38. Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free - The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call! - Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law!
Rudyard Kipling
#39. Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
Jose Marti
#40. Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes
Herman Melville
#41. When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.
Mark Shand
#42. They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?
David Gemmell
#43. I felt motion in the landscape; in the fresh, easy-blowing morning wind, and in the earth itself, as if the shaggy grass were a sort of loose hide, and underneath it herds of wild buffalo were galloping, galloping ... Alone,
Willa Cather
#44. The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
Herbert Spencer
#45. They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in her bare hands!
Euripides
#46. First, no other animals have the same mirroring effect as horses, meaning they will mirror humans' emotions. Second, they are not judgmental or biased. And third, they live within a social structure, heir herds, much the same as we do.
Valerie Ormond
#47. And when one kind of animal overruns an area to the point where many kinds of animal begin to starve, it's up to the predators to thin out the herds before there's nothing left for anyone. That's a simple truth whether you're talking about deer or humans.
Anne Bishop
#48. Time to say thank you and farewell! trills Effie at my elbow. It's one of those moments when I just love her compulsive punctuality. We collect Cinna and Portia, and she escorts us around to say good-bye to important people, then herds us to the door.
Suzanne Collins
#49. The creator seeks companions, not corpses- and not herds or believers either. The creator seeks fellow-creators - those who grave new values on new law-tablets.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop ...
Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In
Eileen Granfors
#51. It was a well-known fact that humans became more addled than usual when running in herds.
Jim Butcher
#52. Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses - and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh - those who grave new values on new tables.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. the ideas of ravacious herds of feral domesticated housepets and oversized insects not only taking over the abandoned homes of relocated Americans but actually setting up house and keeping them in model repair and impressive equity,
David Foster Wallace
#54. Chicago at the time owned a lake the size of a sea, several advertising firms, at least six tribes of marauding criminals, healthy herds of sailors grazing free, the first Ferris wheel in all the world, and more wind than it could care for.
Catherynne M Valente
#56. Strong creatures don't form herds.
Have they never heard of a lone wolf?
Cats are cute, and wolves are cool.
So in essence, loners are cute and cool.
Wataru Watari
#57. Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.
LL Cool J
#58. Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
Gilbert White
#60. What is this world?
A term which men have got,
To signify not one in ten knows what;
A term, which with no more precision passes
To point out herds of men than herds of asses;
In common use no more it means, we find,
Than many fools in same opinions joined.
Charles Churchill
#61. Most animal species stuck together in packs or schools, flocks or herds. But human beings separated themselves and sat behind locked doors.
Mia Zabrisky
#64. But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#65. If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.
Dennis Miller
#66. Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
Walter Scott
#68. Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
Warren G. Bennis
#71. The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.
Theodore Beale
#72. If all you do is follow the herd, you'll just be stepping in poop all day
Wayne Dyer
#73. It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.
Neal Barnard
#74. Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle
Aleister Crowley
#75. I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.]
Juvenal
#80. Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.
Doc Holliday
#81. Mkhaya's herd is a good-sized group - sixteen in all, counting the calves - and even though they are the largest land mammals on earth, they are not always easy to find. Elephants, it runs out, are surprisingly stealthy.
Thomas French
#82. The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club! ...
Eugenia Sheppard
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