Famous quotes containing the words lonely and/or shepherd:
“It was too lonely for her there,
And too wild,
And since there were but two of them,
And no child....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)