Flock Quotes

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there`s a shot from the bumper of a car and it`s going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

Before the US (2006) mid-term elections, my rabbi was taking a lot of flak. The congregation is exclusive-liberal, yet he is a self-described independent (read "conservative") and he was driving the flock wild. Why? Because a) he never discussed politics; and b) he taught that the quality of political discourse must be addressed first; that Jewish law teaches that it is incumbent upon one to hear the other fellow out. `So I, like many of the liberal congregation, began - teeth grinding - to attempt to do so. And in doing so I recognised that I held two views of America. `One was of a state where everything was magically wrong and must be immediately corrected at any cost; and the other (the world in which I actually functioned day to day) was made up of people who were in the main reasonably trying to maximise their comfort by getting along with one another (in the workplace, the marketplace, the jury room, even the school meeting). `And I realised that the time had come for me to avow my participation in the country in which I chose to live - and that this country was not a schoolroom teaching values, but a marketplace.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Eagles don`t flock, you have to find them one at a time.

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that`s none of the law`s business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he`d better have the rooms available.

The combining of our respective customers will allow us to significantly accelerate adoption of a common platform for carriers and their distributors to collaborate and exchange data. The value of this network will grow quickly as more companies and distributors flock to join it.

Every single flock at every single farm is being tested. We`re doing this program to reassure the people that poultry is safe to eat.