Tribes famous quotes

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Powerful #Hatred #Tribes

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
-- Anne Lamott

#Nuts #Tribes #Reason

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Grandma #Feelings #Tribes

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
-- Arthur Keith

#Tribes #Free Will

My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.
-- Big Boi

#Kids #Tribes #Quests

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
-- Bill Nye

#Forests #Tribes #Might

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.
-- Bob Pettit

#Sick #Tribes #Used

Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?
-- Brian Friel

#May #Outsiders #Tribes

(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Dark #Firsts #Tribes

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 and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman

#Connections #Unions #Tribes

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.
-- David Benioff

#Greatness #Two #Tribes

I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.
-- David Rudisha

#Humble #People #Tribes

... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ...
-- Diane Wakoski

#Essence #Civilization #Tribes

It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.
-- Dimitrije Tucovic

#Struggle #Political #Tribes

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?
-- Edward Hoagland

#Opportunity #Land #Tribes

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
-- Ella Maillart

#Simple #Appreciate #Tribes

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, a new articulation, renew them.
-- Eugene Ionesco

#Use #Tribes #Poet

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.
-- George Catlin

#Tribes #Finest #Missouri

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.
-- George Ellwanger

#Onions #Tribes #Parsley

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.
-- George III

#Essentials #Revolution #Tribes

He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.
-- Haile Selassie

#Sex #Taught #Tribes

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
-- Helen Keller

#Age #Tribes #Maldives

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Roots #Tree #Tribes

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
-- Horace

#Order #Poetry #Tribes

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.
-- Horace

#Latin #Yoke #Tribes

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.
-- Isak Dinesen

#Useless #Tribes #Ancient

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.
-- Jane Gardam

#Novelists #Ugly #Tribes

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
-- Jared Diamond

#Disease #Tribes #Population

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.
-- Jason Mraz

#People #World #Tribes

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
-- Jill Tarter

#Tribes

Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.
-- Jim Horning

#Real #World #Tribes

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
-- Joey Skaggs

#Bills #Tribes #Function

By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.
-- John Evelyn

#Quality #Foundation #Tribes

If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.
-- Jonathan Franzen

#Comfort #Succeed #Tribes

It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!
-- Keegan-Michael Key

#Years #Important #Tribes

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Country #Tribes #Humans

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 that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is - One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.
-- Lenny Bruce

#Christian #Tribes #Deuces

Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition,
-- Lubov Azria

#Inspire #Different #Tribes

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
-- Martin Van Buren

#Tribes #United States #Stipulations

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 hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.
-- Michael Kinsley

#Numbers #Curves #Tribes

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
-- Michael Rapaport

#Community #Together #Tribes

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.
-- Mike Jackson

#Moving #Tribes #Stills

The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!
-- Nelson Mandela

#Country #Race #Tribes

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 no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes.
-- P.D. Ouspensky

#Men #Tribes #Criminals

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.
-- Paul Virilio

#Together #Tribes

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.
-- Peter Singer

#Tribes #Members #Go Back In Time

Design is a tool to help the tribe.
-- Philippe Starck

#Design #Tools #Tribes

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Names #People #Tribes

Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.
-- Richard Thornton

#Long #Listening #Tribes

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Enemy #Tribes #Rebel

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
-- Saint Patrick

#Tribes #God Love #Stranger

I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
-- Saint Patrick

#Heart #Tribes #Bishops

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
-- Seth Godin

#Leader #Tribes #Helping

Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again
-- Shaka

#Enemy #Tribes #Strikes

I belong to the tribe of Levi.
-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Tribes

There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.
-- Simon Hoggart

#Nhs #Use #Tribes

Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!
-- Tad Williams

#Wicked #Tribes #Hackers

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe.
-- Tanith Lee

#Art #Needs #Tribes

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
-- Tecumseh

#Tribes #Makers #Fortune

If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#War #Tribes #American Indian

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.
-- Walt Whitman

#Writing #Tools #Tribes

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
-- William Bartram

#Bird #Tribes #Abandoned

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
-- William Robertson Smith

#May #Superstitions #Tribes

I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.
-- Winston Churchill

#Real #Use #Tribes

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.
-- Diana L. Eck

#People #Challenges #Tribes

We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.
-- Dirk Wittenborn

#People #Tribes #Mets

Basically the subcultures formed in the U.K. because the mainstream was not satisfying the needs of certain people like myself. So through music and through style, we found our tribe, we found like-minded rebels.
-- Don Letts

#People #Style #Tribes

Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his Fatherland as well as Holyland, i.e. the land of the origin of his religion... Consequently the so-called aboriginal or hill tribes also are Hindus: because India is their Fatherland as well as their Holyland of whatever form of religion or worship they follow.
-- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

#Sea #Land #Tribes

As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
-- Action Bronson

#Rap #Guy #Tribes

I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.
-- Anne Waldman

#People #Energy #Tribes

Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?
-- Brian Friel

#May #Outsiders #Tribes

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
-- Roland Joffe

#Tribes #Invited

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.
-- Rose Byrne

#Boys #Quests #Tribes

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.
-- Ian McDonald

#Earth #Tribes #Geek

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
-- Lily King

#Bats #Delicacy #Tribes