Hopi Tribe Quotes & Sayings

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time?
Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world? — Jeanette Winterson

I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor ... Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck. — Mark Twain

The Hopi tribe of North America had a goddess called Spider Woman. In their creation myth she teamed up with Tawa the sun god, and they sang the First Magic Song as a duet. This song brought the Earth, and life, into being. Spider Woman then took the threads of Tawa's thoughts and wove them into solid form, creating fish, birds, and all other animals. — Richard Dawkins

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ... — George McGovern

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. — Victor Hugo

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society. — Pamela Anderson

We (believers) still have the presence of sin, nay, the stirrings and workings of corruption. These make us to have many a sad heart and a wet eye. Yet Christ has thus far freed us from sin; it shall not have dominion. There may be the turbulence, but not the prevalence of sin ... (Sin) may get into the throne of the heart and play the tyrant in this or that particular act of sin, but it shall never more be as a king there. — Samuel Bolton

He had sometimes looked into her eyes and whispered to himself how bewitching she was, as if she weren't there hearing him, as if he were all alone looking upon some exceptional specimen rather than his wife. — Terry Goodkind

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness. — Tom Rath

I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced. — Lucinda Williams

The most beautiful temple in the universe is your soul; that is why God wants to dwell in it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You're so damn perfect you shouldn't even exist. Just ... look at you. — Kahlen Aymes

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12. — Thomas Friedman

Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process. — Maya Angelou

Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment. — Friedrich Engels

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's. — Sarah Addison Allen