Quotes of: Tribe-called-quest Keyword

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize other...

Steven Pinker

There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for he who takes, pays.

E. Hoffmann Price

The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.

Felix Dennis

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

George Crook

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

Geronimo

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work...

Gary Snyder

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.

James Welch

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

In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.

John Eldredge

C-3PO: Wonderful. We are now a part of the tribe. [an Ewok hugs Han] Han Solo: Just what I always wanted.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest

In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way.

The Cordello Quest

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Emily's Quest

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

Emily's Quest

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

Emily's Quest

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

Emily's Quest

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Emily's Quest

I'm going to be a fairy.” Sarah announced, studying her file. "What a surprise.” Nicole mumbled, closing the door.

Forbidden Quest

Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff.

Garnet

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a litt...

Philippe Petit

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

E. O. Wilson