Primordially Quotes & Sayings

As the life of the horse is in his legs, so the life of the traveler is in his feet, and good care should be taken of them. — Juliette De Bairacli Levy

Fingerbone was never an impressive town. It was chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere. — Marilynne Robinson

I love travelling, but I have to admit I didn't initially take to Agra in India. As soon as you arrive, someone wants to show you around, take your bags or sell you something - and it's just a bit of a culture shock. You just have to make the necessary mental adjustment to the setting. — Dexter Fletcher

I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it. — Shaun Alexander

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying. — Nell Newman

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. — Sally Ride

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. — Philip Jones Griffiths

This immoral system, how do you get outside it? Option one, you drop out, sever the connections. They got that far in '68, okay? People went as far with that as they could, to say, I'm free, you're free, kumbaya and barbaric yawp and yadda yadda, and look what happened. The problem with the whole Rousseau trip is that man is primordially a social animal, in the sense of clan or tribe. Marx says this somewhere. You detach completely, you not only find yourself way out on a limb, against your nature, but you've lost any power for group resistance. And eventually, you come crawling back, clutching credit-card applications, begging to be let in. — Garth Risk Hallberg

We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense. — Paul R. Gross

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. — Egon Schiele

Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him — Sunday Adelaja

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever.
[Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam
Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.] — Horace

The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon. — Philip W. Comfort

Naturally occurring timeless awareness - utterly lucid awakened mind
is something marvelous and superb, primordially and spontaneously present.
It is the treasury from which comes the universe of appearances and possibilities, whether of samsara or nirvana.
Homage to the unwavering state, free of elaborations. — Longchen Rabjam