tribe quotes

Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us To purify the dialect of the tribe And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.2.

   How culpable was he That last night when he broke Our tribe's complicity? 'Now you're supposed to be An educated man,' I hear him say.'Puzzle me The right answer to that one.'

- SeamusJustin Heaney
  Field Work,'Casualty'. On a man killedbreaking the curfew.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
  'Abou Ben  Adhem'.

He is a barbarian, and thinksthat the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Of the Briton. Caesar toTheodotus. Caesar and Cleopatra, act 2.

For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes. For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life. For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him. For he is of the tribe of Tiger.

- Christopher Smart
^63  Of his cat Jeoffry. JubilateAgno, fragment B, l.719^22. (First published1939.)