Quotes with tribes

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  • Chief Seattle A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
    Speech 1854
    Chief Seattle
    Chief of the Suquamish and Duwanish Indians (1780 - 1866)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William C. Bryant All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Lord George Byron Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bronislaw Malinowski The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
    Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
    Bronislaw Malinowski
    Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bayard Taylor The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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