Old Tribal Sayings

#1. Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

Muriel Spark

#3. I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Brett Favre

#4. She was my dream; and if you touch a dream it vanishes, like a soap bubble.

Neil Gaiman

#5. We are headed for perfect disaster..

Blake Lewis

#6. The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

Marshall McLuhan

#7. Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#8. I always try to show my human side to my colleagues and to the whole circuit. More than anything because we are all on the same train, it is part of our work.

Novak Djokovic

#9. Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

Thomas Frank

#10. A two thousand years old culture is being replaced by Arab Bedouin culture in the name of Islam. Cheegha, The Call is a lone voice against the threat to the tribal way of life, the ways of the fathers.

Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur

#11. I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

Lucian Freud

#12. There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe.

Edith Wharton

#13. Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

Suzanne Vega

#14. Make your life a tribute equal to the magnitude of the gift of life.

Bryant McGill