Famous quotes containing the words lonely and/or shepherd:
“You’ll stay here with me my child, won’t you? It’s been so lonely without you. But you’ve come to me at last, haven’t you? Now you’ll sing for me and I’ll play and we’ll be together forever.”
—Eric Taylor, and Leroux. Arthur Lubin. Erique Claudin (Claude Rains)
“The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)