Tumulus Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, the people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern. — Max Lucado

In the Lake Debo region (in Mali, on the Niger), pyramids are also found, and these were dubbed "mounds," as might be expected. This is the usual procedure in the attempt to disparage African values. In contrast, there is the reverse procedure consisting of describing a clay tumulus - a real mound - in Mesopotamia, as the most perfect temple that the human mind can imagine. It goes without saying that such reconstructions are generally mere wishful thinking. — Cheikh Anta Diop

Nationalities are a facist way of thinking aimed at forcing people into a narrow and stupid sense of belonging. It makes some people feel superior to others and perpetuates hatred and war. — Alaa Al Aswany

And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to Edenville in the like way is all hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness. — James Joyce

A long time from now someone unknown to me will stand on the white plain where I now stand. He will speak a different language and the mountains in the distance may have been ground down but there are certain constants that will reliably inform his life -- kings like great trees whose roots are watered in ignorance, men who come to war reluctantly only to discover they have the souls of jackals, and fortresses like mountains, as immovable and inevitable. I anticipate that a flash of intuition will make him look at the tumulus or crater or clamorous sprawling city where Troy once stood and intuit how many men once bent their minds toward its destruction. — Zachary Mason

They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two. — Ramsey Clark

You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild. — Eric Betzig

Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. — Marci Shimoff

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is. — Nicholas Mosley

I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back. — Katherine McIntyre

I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as transcendent. Because that's the point of literature, I think: to connect. — John D'Agata

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to ... — James Elkins

Mark my word, the day is coming when it's going to cost to live for Jesus Christ. We are, more and more, a minority, and that's exactly what it was like in the first century. — Billy Graham