Top 369 Tribal Quotes & Sayings

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth.

My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, national news agencies requesting interviews sometimes asked if they could film a tribal dance or if I would wear traditional tribal clothing for the interview. I doubt they asked the president of the United States to dress like a pilgrim for an interview.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

In tribal society, the most important thing to do when civilians are killed in a skirmish is to acknowledge the deaths, and provide compensation. When tribal clans fight, the victor is required to take care of the vanquished widows and orphans, which puts a limitation on bloodshed, and tempers warring groups to try and negotiate a compromise.

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture.

All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation, of Indian tribes becoming what our courts have come to refer to as quasi-sovereign domestic dependent nations. Over the years the relationship has flourished, grown, and evolved into a vibrant partnership in which over 500 tribal governments stand shoulder to shoulder with the other governmental units that form our Republic.

Issues that have relevance to the tribal community have routinely been minimized and ignored.

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

Language is essentially tribal, so jargon can actually be a really good thing because it unites people.

Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

In 'National Geographic,' you always saw pictures of tribal Africa. And here I am, sitting in Nairobi in our suburban house, watching TV and thinking, 'Why is it always going to be these tribal people 'that are the ambassadors of our image?

As governor, I work in hand in hand with tribal leaders on everything from disaster response to economic development. Tribal governments are important partners to our state government, and I value the good relationships my administration has cultivated with them.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

The culture's changed massively. The kids are different, with the phones and stuff. Even if you like a song, you don't really know who the artists are, it's a lot more faceless, it's a lot less tribal. When we were growing up it was much more tribal - it was rock, it was grunge. Now people like songs, [but] they don't necessarily know the song's origins. I don't know how you would feel angry at the world, or distressed, because most people are constantly distracted or consumed.

It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism. Colonialism essentially insulted the tribal territories, and as a result, nations came to be composed of an agglomeration of many tribes - 65 in Burkina Faso alone. The Mossi majority sees itself as the owner of Africa; others are just negotiators for representation. That is the way it is now, and it is the sole responsibility of colonialism.

Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

People are hard-wired for tribal identity.

Issues affecting tribal communities have routinely been minimized and ignored.

Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

The overwhelming majority of Afghans are not tribal, and they're not Pashtun.

One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.

People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Tattoos are addicting, and I used to have this tribal tattoo, but I was never really happy with it.

There are plenty of reasons for disliking people, but this tribal aversion to anyone with a posh voice is very boring.

We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.

I was very into tribal techno and used to go and really lose myself in great dance music.

Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.

Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes and tribal members, this means that the authority of tribal governments must be accorded the respect and support to which they are entitled under the law. It means that American Indian children and youth must be provided a solid education and the opportunity to go on to college. It means that more must be done to stimulate tribal economies, create jobs, and increase economic opportunities.

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

The best time to catch tribal jargon is when it's not looking.

There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan.

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

The FBI continues to work with tribes through the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 to help tribal governments better address the unique public safety challenges and disproportionately high rates of violence and victimization in many tribal communities.

This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out.

Kadamban' is not a documentary, although it's set in a tribal backdrop. There's dancing and a whole lot of entertainment.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.