Patriarch Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the…
— Nick Cave
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this…
— Dogen
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Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
— Gloria Steinem
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Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as…
— Robert McKee
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These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch called it "essence…
— Dennis Merzel
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be…
— Adam Weishaupt
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Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others.…
— Linji Yixuan
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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human…
— Mary Daly
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Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact…
— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
— Tony Scott
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In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
— Frank Herbert
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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.
— Barbara Mertz
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Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist,…
— Tony Scott
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I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
— John Sutter
Who Wrote These Patriarch Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Patriarch Quotes as follows: