Tribes Quotes

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The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.… — Jeanette Winterson
Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of… — Darren Shan
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of Godâ€¦ Among the tribes… — T.E. Lawrence
Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to… — Seth Godin
It's a strange life, isn't it? ...A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to… — Lisa Kleypas
Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall… — Erin Hunter
Itâ€™s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasnâ€™t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you… — Tim O'Brien
The world is large,â€ said Okonkwo. â€œI have even heard that in some tribes a manâ€™s children belong to his wife and her family.â€ â€œThat… — Chinua Achebe
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few… — Nicholas D. Kristof
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised… — Rob Bell
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66] — Anne Lamott
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom… — Steven Pinker
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself. — Seth Godin
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human… — Seth Godin
Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought… — Scott O'Dell
â€¦the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special… — Richard Dawkins
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is… — P D Ouspensky
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity… — Gore Vidal
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to… — Joseph Campbell

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