Tribes Quotations

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

Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

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.

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!

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

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.

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

Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours.

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.

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

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

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

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

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

The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.

Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.

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.

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.

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.

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

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

We stress that Congressman Weller's relationships with various Indian tribes has been longstanding, built out of strong mutual support for a number of common causes.

We don't have any announcements to make with respect to the activities of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance or various tribes in the southern part of the country. We are considering a whole range of things,

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

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

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.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

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.

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

This raises huge questions about the authorities of States and Tribes to access the best scientific data and manage a regional resource. Congress was clear 26 years ago when it passed the Northwest Power Act laying out the roles and responsibilities of tribes and federal and state fishery agencies. If this stands, it says that any member of Congress, behind closed doors, can undo a decades-long effort with words hidden in a legislative report.

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits. The Lunarians have been described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement. For example, Bragellos avers their anatomical identity with Man, but Professor Newcomb says they are more like the hill tribes of Vermont.

Montana will just never be the large-scale Indian gaming place that you will see where tribes are next to major urban areas. You could have 300 machines (in a single casino), but no one's going to use them.

On my season of 'Survivor,' the tribes were split: a tribe of men versus a tribe of women. Even though the women kicked the men's butts at the first two challenges, we were a hot mess at camp.

Because tribes do not file campaign finance reports, it is not possible to compare or double-check the amounts received by candidates and reported on the candidates' campaign finance reports.

If tribes like the Rumsey tribe, who have demonstrated a shared commitment with local governments, are not permitted to participate in local planning decisions by formal means, the governor is then, in effect, encouraging tribes to remain aloof and apart from their communities and it's horrible public policy.

He is essentially equating Indian tribes as special interests along the lines of trial lawyers and the pharmaceutical industry. We're part of the fabric of American government, derived from the U.S. Constitution, and he's trying to negate that history and portray us as a special interest, which is very insulting.

He had a major role in the early days in Indian gaming. Things were chaotic. No one knew if anyone was going to make any money. Most of the tribes were disorganized.

I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

I think there are some tribes that might consider it. I don't think anybody is getting rich off of 18-year-olds.

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.

Our goal is to get the tribes in the south to oppose the Taliban, ... They have been relatively quiet thus far. We need them to oppose the Taliban. Therefore, we need them to recognize that they're going to have a voice in the post-Taliban government.

I think people in the Swahili tribes in Africa are tuned into the Florida-Florida State rivalry, ... It's big. Families break up over this game.

The area of the country he is operating in and the tribes he is in contact with are obviously the dominant population in the country so that whole element has a big role to play in both the operations and the post-Taliban government,

The Apache and others who fought the great cavalry battles took the cavalry's horses and methods and improved on them. These great horse warrior tribes are now cowboys and they naturally raise their young to be cowboy kids.

I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

Tribes have proven time and again that we are a good federal investment. Through the exercise of our inherent self-governing powers, tribes are able to contract and compact federal programs for the benefit of both Indian and surrounding communities.

Tribes are starting to make it on their own.

Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

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

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.

When you look at the amount of money the tribes appear willing to put on the table, they look like the 8,000-pound gorilla. And, so far, they have cast their lot with the Democrats.

Those tribes were two of the largest in the state. Given their unique economic needs, those were the terms of the compact.

We want Congress to either put a stop to these unreasonable burdens on the tribes or settle the litigation.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe's diplomat. He carries the game's standard and is really the line of where the game starts.

There's lots of room for negotiation. We're trying to engage the local communities and tribes for mutually agreeable solutions to give tribes ownership and management of these museums.

They accused me of stirring up animosity. You know I write about the 16th century! I write about tribes that were fighting against each other in the 16th century. And they take all of that and they project it onto the present day.

The situation is already grave, if not grotesque, ... And to facilitate this by making drinking facilities more widely available is close to lunacy. It simply means that our towns and city centers are abandoned every night to tribes of pugnacious, drunk, noisy, vomiting louts.

Right now ... the tribes are pretty satisfied. I think (the first speech) helped move this thing along a little bit.

The Oneida Nation remains strongly opposed to out-of-state tribal casinos. These out-of-state tribes are not federally recognized in New York and have no standing in this state.

During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan in 1893, Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan were cut off from related tribes across the border in what was then India and is now Pakistan.

'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.

This issue arose when tribes informed the division that under their interpretation of tribal sovereignty, they did not need to comply with the state's certification program.

The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.

Although the University of North Dakota maintained that its logo and nickname are used with consummate respect, the position of the namesake tribes and those affected by the hostile or abusive environment that the nickname and logo create take precedence. The decision of a namesake sovereign tribe, regarding when and how its name and imagery can be used, must be respected even when others may not agree.

They are currently functioning independently of the tribes ... and they are doing things that are helpful to our side and unhelpful to the other side,

They are rich, powerful tribes that don't want poor tribes to have compacts.

This means the tribes have kept their commitment to the state of California (to) deliver to local communities what they promised.

There was clear, documented support from the namesake tribes for the schools that were evaluated and taken off the list. That was not the case for UND.

There were a number of difficult issues we had to work through. Providing meaningful fishing opportunities wouldn't be possible without strong cooperation between the state, the tribes and our constituents.

All of you know the neighborhoods that harbor terrorists, the tribes that have terrorists and those that don't,

It's a little more complicated than the others in that, in this particular case, there are three namesake tribes that we have to gather input.

The northern hill tribes burn rain forests so the land makes better grazing, ... Without tree roots there, it allows erosion.

Everybody has been saying they want to donate the money to a charity, but what I said is in my opinion the money should be returned to the tribes and not to anybody else.

These tribes have the right to participate in the process even if they hired a bad apple and then fired him.

The issue of the logo mark ... that depicts a Native American in feathered headdress, adds to the use of Native American imagery that the broadest range of indigenous tribes and peoples find offensive and insulting.

The FBI continues to work with tribes through the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 to help tribal governments better address the unique public safety challenges and disproportionately high rates of violence and victimization in many tribal communities.

Indian tribes have become a political force, and they have to be looked at that way with regard to political contributions.

If there was another way to make the money ... whatever it takes to allow this tribe or any tribe not to be under the gun looking for federal government funds - most tribes and tribal chairmen would do that. Everyone wants to regulate Indian gaming, but not non-Indian gaming. Why is that? That's the question.

Gaming tribes are getting the same amount of money distributed to them under old formulas. I think it's time to look at perhaps a new formula that gives those who don't have the benefit of casinos a larger share of the government's assistance.

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.

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.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

I was pretty much consumed by this character. Even when I was off, I was continually searching to find something else new about [Idi] Amin, and to embed myself deeper into the culture to the point that, in the end, I was so entrenched that I could tell what tribe someone was from just by looking at them.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

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.