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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death
ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. ~ James Baldwin
Totems quotes by James Baldwin
The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true. ~ Jean Shepherd
Totems quotes by Jean Shepherd
I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think." ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Totems quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory. ~ Dave Attell
Totems quotes by Dave Attell
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. ~ Andy Roddick
Totems quotes by Andy Roddick
Cassie Wright's largest audience, the only part of her audience still growing, is composed of sixteen-to-twenty-five-year-old men. These men buy her backlist movies, her plastic breast relics and pocket vaginas, but not for any erotic purpose. They collect the blow-up sex surrogates and signature lingerie as some form of religious relics. Souvenirs of the real mother, the perfect mother they never had. Frankenstein parts or religious totems of the mother they'll spend the rest of their lives trying to find -who'll praise them enough, support them enough, love them enough. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
Totems quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
We are all but symbols of some greater thing - totems of ourselves
subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path. ~ S. Kelley Harrell
Totems quotes by S. Kelley Harrell
I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger. ~ Lita Ford
Totems quotes by Lita Ford
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. ~ William John Wills
Totems quotes by William John Wills
More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems of our selves, reminders of who we are or would like to be. Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning. ~ Seth
Totems quotes by Seth
The Indians did not like to see anything odd
a white squirrel, for instance ... They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil ... And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams. ~ Karen Joy Fowler
Totems quotes by Karen Joy Fowler
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. ~ Karl Marx
Totems quotes by Karl Marx
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional. ~ Louise Bourgeois
Totems quotes by Louise Bourgeois
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ~ William Hazlitt
Totems quotes by William Hazlitt
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks. ~ Bill Viola
Totems quotes by Bill Viola
Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom. ~ Mason Cooley
Totems quotes by Mason Cooley
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Totems quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights. ~ Lance Morrow
Totems quotes by Lance Morrow
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. ~ Rick Yancey
Totems quotes by Rick Yancey
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. ~ Simon Cowell
Totems quotes by Simon Cowell
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole. ~ Andrew Bogut
Totems quotes by Andrew Bogut
Do preschoolers need all the trappings of elementary school . . . ? The faux academic overstimulation? The enforced choices? The cult-like obsession with readiness? I would say, mostly, they do not. And I think some of these trappings, such as the notorious print-rich environments we encountered with their busy totems to industriousness, can actually interfere with the task of becoming a good communicator and a literate person. We spend a lot of energy on creating print-rich environments but that's not at all the same thing as creating a language-rich environment.

Consider again the hope that Finland offers; its guidelines for preprimary (preschool) education remind us that:

"The basis for emerging literacy is that children have heard and listened, they have been heard, they have spoken and been spoken to, people have discussed things with them, and they have asked questions and received answers."

For our young children, what else is there to wish for? ~ Erika Christakis
Totems quotes by Erika Christakis
In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism. ~ Sigmund Freud
Totems quotes by Sigmund Freud
Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home. ~ Sylvia Browne
Totems quotes by Sylvia Browne
The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex. ~ Sigmund Freud
Totems quotes by Sigmund Freud
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. ~ Ted Andrews
Totems quotes by Ted Andrews
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole. ~ Frank Moore Colby
Totems quotes by Frank Moore Colby
What white Americans do not face when they regard a Negro reality- the fact that life is tragic. Life is tragic simply because he earth turn and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps, the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves all he beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, race, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which us rye inly fact we have. ~ James Baldwin
Totems quotes by James Baldwin
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