Ethnographic Film Quotes

#1. Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way just to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to come so near?

Sara Davidson

#2. Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

Shantideva

#3. No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

James F. Cooper

#5. This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Viktor E. Frankl

#8. Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

Matsuo Basho

#9. Play the game of life, without any fear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I definitely consider myself extremely blessed to have great partners in endorsing products. It's not about being on billboards. I endorse something because I believe in it.

Tim Tebow

#11. I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#12. But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests.

Annie Dillard

#13. Discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.

Philip Yancey

#14. It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those who sense the profound affinity that exists between the film medium and a desire to understand people.

Robert Gardner