26 Clan Quotes for You to Enjoy

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. Anthony Trollope

Man Honesty Honesty Is Political Slow Become Politicians Unnecessary Clan Onward Doctrine Quick Movement Subversive Interests Large Now Incompatible

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Service Family Relationship Opportunities Power Become Depend Rich Military Unlike Drawn Clan Members Civil Civil Service Small Generally Protect Him Democrats Overthrown Dictator Dictators Senior Being Sustain Them

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. Chaim Potok

Home Family Reality Reading Neighborhood Clan Born Brought Small Small Town Particular Town How Up Depending Either Which Realities Us Grow Grow Up Aware Deeply

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. Charles Eastman

Family Natural Nothing Several Tribe Clan More Head Voluntary Chief Than Patriarchal Union Connection Larger

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. T. E. Lawrence

Family Man Men Free Holding Valley Clan Would Fact Had Hill Looked His Quickly Owner In Fact Acknowledged Against Land Aggression Who Barren Whoever Each Assert Desert Chose Right

Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband. Ann Nocenti

Journey Men Husband Birds Herself Francisco Clan Martial Pursue Prey Vengeance She Disciplined Go Quest Trained Personal Artist San San Francisco Against Sword Her

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that's stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have. Conor McGregor

Family Me World Path Doubt Fighting Down Gave Our Clan No Doubt Through Generations Lineage Led Stood Famous Capabilities Warriors

Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened. David Morse

Age Mother Father Leader Big Mountains Young Clan Kind Promised Guy He Head Because Line Been His Years Up Just Young Age Happened Next Who Foster Now Royalty

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married. Gianni Versace

Love Think Typical Clan Married About Am Italian Getting Getting Married

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers. Hugh Masekela

Struggle Community Clan Come Protests Demonstrations Up Grew Workers Marches

I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be 'other' in that way. Ilhan Omar

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion. James Wolcott

Music Clan Has-Been Diversion Paris Paris Hilton Hours Hilton Been Provide Endless Hulk Where Flavor Pop Pop Music Bin

We started playing music because of the Wu-Tang Clan. John Gourley

Music Clan Because Started Playing

I didn't feel ready to leave home, because it went from no freedom to all freedom. And I was like, 'Oh, my God, I don't know what I'm doing in college.' There seemed to be no like-minded people where I was... I didn't have a clan. I didn't have a choir... There was no safety net. Lisa Lampanelli

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group. Raekwon

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Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it. Raekwon

Me You Everybody Though Clan Members Out Only Had Part Feel Come Involve Look Another Cuban Always Built Dudes Hear Brand Any Done Going Whether Even Thing Album

I used to love the Wu-Tang Clan. They took my school by storm, by which I mean the three kids in my year who listened to hip-hop. I skipped lectures to go and buy their second album, 'Forever', and then rushed home to listen to it. Romesh Ranganathan

Love Buy Home School Three Year Took Kids Clan Rushed Hip-Hop Go Lectures Forever Listen Listened Storm Which Mean To Love Then Used Who Second Album

Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album. Rza

Money First Clan Given Make Lot Chambers Album

To me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan... It's just like, hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure. Rza

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. Stanislav Grof

Family People Tribe Clan Context Cultures Died Dying Extended Extended Family

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined. Stephen Hunter

Remember First Unleashed Oklahoma Kids Clan Critic Jobs Fabulous Some Week Through Headaches Massacre Attractive Got Die Sitting After Cannot Downside Film Early Watching Imagined

The Chinese people have only family and clan groups; there is no national spirit. Consequently, in spite of four hundred million people gathered together in one China, we are, in fact, but a sheet of loose sand. Sun Yat-sen

Family Together People National Hundred Clan Spirit Only Fact Spite Sheet Loose In Fact China Chinese Chinese People Sand Groups Million Four Million People Consequently Gathered

There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs. W. H. Davies

Good Simple Met Every States Clan Simple Reason He Conceal Almost Talkative Talker Affairs Private Beggar Beggars Scotch America American Quite Reason Large Inclined Among

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