Top 38 Quotes About Patriarchs
#1. The nomadic instinct is a human instinct; it was born with Adam and transmitted through the patriarchs, and after thirty centuries of steady effort, civilization has not educated it entirely out of us yet. It
Mark Twain
#2. Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is
Kazuya Minekura
#3. I must think of something foolproof for a fool.
Aristophanes
#4. The streetlights had already lit up on Bronnaya, and a golden moon hung over the Patriarchs. In the ever deceiving lunar light, it appeared to Ivan Nikolayevich that, instead of a cane, the professor stood holding a sword under his arm.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#5. Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.
Gloria Steinem
#6. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas).
Sam Harris
#7. It was 843 B.C.. The year the patriarchs won the pennant.
Tom Robbins
#8. Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#10. St. Thomas Aquinas taught that water has been a natural sacrament since the dawn of creation. In the age of nature - from Adam through the patriarchs - water refreshed and cleansed humankind.
Scott Hahn
#11. What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#12. We all cry out that the world is corrupt,
and I fear too justly,
but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.
Laurence Sterne
#13. We could file for divorce immediately? Today?" "You could. That is, if it's still what you want to do." Will
Leta Blake
#14. The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#15. I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
Daryl Hannah
#16. This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.
Margaret Atwood
#17. The early Christian patriarchs may not have realized that, in attempting to suppress ecstatic practices, they were throwing out much of Jesus too.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#18. Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.
Herbert Lockyer
#19. The belief in a happy "state of nature" in the remote past is derived partly from the biblical narrative of the age of the patriarchs, partly from the classical myth of the golden age. The general belief in the badness of the remote past only came with the doctrine of evolution.
Bertrand Russell
#20. Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#21. Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.
Bell Hooks
#22. Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
F. Lee Bailey
#23. While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.
Ellen G. White
#24. I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.
Tyler, The Creator
#25. Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#26. The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.
J.C. Ryle
#27. Since the Goddess always has been honored in sacred groves, it is understandable that patriarchs, then as now, leaned toward deforestation.
Tom Robbins
#28. Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last millions of years, but there must come a time when they will have to go.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
Maria Montessori
#31. In the same way that ethnic Israel was the first fruits of humankind due to the achievements of their patriarchs, Christendom includes the great harvest of the faithful because of Jesus's merits.
James Mikolajczyk
#32. My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.
Juliana Hatfield
#33. And he had offended love. Fuck him ragged had Kennedy offended love.
John Niven
#34. Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#35. Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).
Chuck Klosterman
#36. We women are way too hard on ourselves. I don't know who some women are dressing for, but we should be celebrating our bodies.
Jessica Collins
#37. Spiritual fathers have influence over the lives of individuals. Patriarchs have influence over families. The devil has been able to destroy families because there is a lack of spiritual fathers and patriarchs.
Sherry K. White
#38. One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.
Rosalind Coward
