Clan Quotes
100 quotes by 63 authors
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The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is…
— Winston Churchill
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Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers,…
— William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of…
— Sinclair Lewis
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Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent…
— Theodor Fontane
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As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan.…
— Sheryl Crow
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In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place…
— John Thorn
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The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is…
— Criss Jami
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Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called…
— Sebastian Junger
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Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
— Stanislav Grof
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and…
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had…
— T.E. Lawrence
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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to…
— Camille Paglia
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All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up,…
— Chaim Potok
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I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the…
— Raekwon
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Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody.…
— Raekwon
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible…
— Anthony Trollope
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I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
— Gianni Versace
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The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who Wrote These Clan Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 100 Clan Quotes, led by these top contributors: