Tribes Quotes - Page 12

• This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation, of Indian tribes becoming what our courts have come to refer to as quasi-sovereign domestic dependent nations. Over the years the relationship has flourished, grown, and evolved into a vibrant partnership in which over 500 tribal governments stand shoulder to shoulder with the other governmental units that form our Republic.

  George H. W. Bush

  Independent, Years, Government

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• When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Gun, Devil

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.5108, Delphi Classics

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• People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

  Christian Lacroix

  Fashion, Clothes, People

  "Christian Lacroix: 'I am not nostalgic for the past'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

  Arthur Keith

  Free Will

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Blood, Hatred, Unconquerable Will

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.

  John McCain

  Years, Government, United States

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Funny, Reading, Book

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• 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, Favour

  "The Churchill you didn't know". Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2002.

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• The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

  Horace

  Latin, Yoke, Used

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• The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

  Desmond Morris

  Soccer, Lying, Past

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• My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Mother, Rights, Years

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  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, Personal History

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• My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.

  Edward de Bono

  Fighting, Thinking, Lessons

  "Edward de Bono: 'Iraq? They just need to think it through'" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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• As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . 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 of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

  Gary Snyder

  Ignorance, Animal, Solitude

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• We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble to sing and pray; sometimes a smaller number, perhaps only two or three. The songs had a few words, but were not formal. The singer would occasionally put in such words as he wished instead of the usual tone sound. Sometimes we prayed in silence; sometimes each one prayed aloud; sometimes an aged person prayed for all of us. At other times one would rise and speak to us of our duties to each other and to Usen. Our services were short.

  Geronimo

  Song, Religious, Holiday

  "Geronimo: My Life".

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• When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.

  Joe Perry

  Guitar, Flames, Play

  FaceBook post by Joe Perry from Mar 24, 2015

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• The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'

  Barack Obama

  Mind Blowing, Islam, Hussein

  "Obama’s speech bridges the Abrahamic faiths" By Greg Barrett, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Silly, Fighting, Long

  "Fictional character: T.E. Lawrence". "Lawrence of Arabia", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Love, Real, Heart

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• I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above this earth.

  Red Cloud

  Children, Father, Native American

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• Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.

  Irene Nemirovsky

  Breakup, Fighting, Winning

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• 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 others and more likely to empathize with them.

  Steven Pinker

  Views, People, Life Is Like

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• Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

  Chief Seattle

  Regret, Native American, Order

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• I instruct you to be the obeyer,
  A rhythm recipe that you'll savor,
  Doesn't matter if you're minor or major,
  Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player,
  As you inhale like a breath of fresh air

  Phife Dawg

  Rap, Player, Air

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• The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Bed, Might

  "Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"".

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