Tribe Quotes

267 quotes by 219 authors

I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother,… — Corey Taylor
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a… — Michael Kinsley
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans… — Elaine Pagels
A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not… — Jose Mujica
Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family.… — Isabella Rossellini
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything… — Virginia Woolf
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from… — Lenny Bruce
A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together. — Michael Rapaport
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored. — Alan Paton
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from… — Horace Bushnell
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent,… — Eugene Ionesco
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom… — Robert A. Heinlein
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. — Ambrose Bierce
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the… — Doug Peacock
Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then… — Corliss Lamont
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. — Eugene McCarthy
We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members… — Paulo Coelho

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