Nomads Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as…
— Cesar Aira
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In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.
— Jane Bowles
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And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them
— Robyn Davidson
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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
— Stephen Gardiner
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America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces
— Cathleen McGuigan
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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet. I imagine they might…
— Stephen Hawking
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Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb nomads and whores.
— Manu Joseph
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The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few…
— Larry McMurtry
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Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
— Wendell Berry
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It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
— Richard Leakey
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Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).
— Khaled Hosseini
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No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls…
— Elif Safak
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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the…
— Bohumil Hrabal
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They may be America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces.
— Cathleen McGuigan
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But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For nations vague as weed, For nomads among stones, Small-statured cross-faced tribes And cobble-close families In mill-towns on dark mornings Life is slow dying.
— Philip Larkin
Who Wrote These Nomads Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Nomads Quotes as follows: