Top 25 Pygmies Quotes
#1. [Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.
N. T. Wright
#2. The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.
William O. Douglas
#3. There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.
Anonymous
#4. Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Edward Young
#5. Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
Herman Melville
#6. The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Lester B. Pearson
#7. He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
Stephen L. Carter
#8. Politically speaking, ours is an age of the pygmies.
Tony Judt
#10. The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
Basil O'Connor
#11. When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill
#12. He felt a giant among pygmies, a pike among crappies, as he stood there among the legislators, most of whom owed him for flavors - special bills passed for their law clients, state jobs for constituents, " contributions" for their personal campaign funds, and so on.
A.J. Liebling
#13. You know, Balzac once described bureaucracy as a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." "What'd your buddy Balzac have to say about inadmissible evidence?" "Not a lot. I think he considered the subject beneath him.
Craig Johnson
#14. Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.
Richard G. Scott
#15. Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#17. The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with these wonderful people has been incredibly valuable.
Corneille Ewango
#18. We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
Robert Anton Wilson
#19. People who kill time are themselves not alive.
Amit Abraham
#20. And you'll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.
James Joyce
#21. Oh for Christ sake What's the name of this soap opera, The Bored and The Addlebrained? At least half you Snow Girls have a serious boyfriend.
Lee DeBourg
#22. This October like November,
That August like a hundred thousand hours,
And that September,
A hundred thousand dragging sunlit days,
And half October like a thousand years ...
Ford Madox Ford
#23. Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
Hedy Lamarr
#24. You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin
#25. Loving God is like my being black. I just am. [No one says] 'You know what? I'm gonna be blacker today!' It's my culture. It's not something I put on or take off or show more. You just communicate that in the way you live your life.
Angela Bassett
