“The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?” PeopleMenLooksGodHelpingSeemsWhiteBrotherProtectWhite ManOrphan Author:Chief Seattle
“Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.” ShouldLooksMayWarProblemSeemsTogetherFacesUsedEnergyViewsKnownPovertyHellBrotherConflictInvestingAidsTheologyUsed To BeAttributesDiverseCommunionBentBrothers And SistersDisagreementHivOrientationAccommodateTime And EnergyHiv AidsInclusiveness Author:Desmond Tutu
“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.” KnowsBigsSeemsAmericaYoungWhiteRecordsPlayerBrotherListeningBandJazzSouthSingersMy BrotherSouth AfricaDukesSaxophoneKittiesNinaVocalistJazz BandRecord Players Author:Miriam Makeba
“I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of water over rocks down below, cicadas rattling a chorus off in the distance. All sounds of the world carrying on like it always had. So much could change or be lost, and still, the rest of the world went on like it was nothing. It didn't seem wrong, but it didn't seem right either. I'd gone on today like it was nothing. I'd laughed and felt happy and forgotten for a little while that this was now a world without my brother in it.” WorldLittlesStillsSeemsEyeTodayLostFeltSoundWaterGoneTreeRocksBrotherBirdDistanceForgottenTinyMy BrotherLaughedOccasionalChorusCarrying OnCicadas Author:Jessi Kirby
“The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.” MenNeedsHumansHeartSoulMomentsSeemsSpiritualLife IsMotherEvilCommonBehindsHe ManBrotherEarsDeedsScreensFamiliarImpulseTiesHidingConfessionHuman SoulUnspoken Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.” PeopleYearsSeemsLife IsEnergyObjectsBrotherEightEnjoyedFiftySouthernBeesSicilian Book:Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins Source: Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins
“I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.” ThinkingMenDifferentStatesProblemSeemsAbleDifferencesMistakeCollegeHe ManBrotherMy BrotherSameness Author:Zadie Smith
“Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving human beings. Like Moses responding to the travail of his brothers (Ex. 2:11), a caring halachic Jewish community should respond seriously to the heartfelt appeal of our contemporary sisters.” ShouldHumansHeartSeemsCommunityHuman BeingsIdentityBrotherIntegrityTraditionJewCaringContemporaryAppealsExesMosesClashRespondingHeartfeltIntersectionsUnconventionalJewish Community Author:Vanessa L Ochs
“Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.” HumansChildrenLittlesSeemsYoungMotherAnimalRaceBrotherHusbandFemaleResponsibleSpeciesMalesDelightPeacefulWelfareHuman RaceThoughtfulCombatMockYoung Children Author:Margaret Mead
“I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.” KnowsMenDoeStillsDoneSeemsSpiritEvilNamesSinCommonBrotherCharityExcuseHeightGood ManMultitudesAttainmentInconsistentInconsistencyFerventWorldliness Author:Charles Spurgeon
“It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.” IfsTryingEnoughSeemsHalfAwarenessStudentsBrotherWake UpWorkersAwake Author:John Lennon
“The voice of Thich Nhat Hanh-friendly, patient, steadfast, confident, contemporary, and often witty-seems, to me, an intermediary big brother talking directly to me on every page saying, 'Look! It's right there in you,' the very wisdom that leads to compassion.” LooksBigsSeemsVoiceTalkingCompassionBrotherPagesPatientWittyContemporaryFriendlySteadfastThich Nhat Hanh Author:Sylvia Boorstein
“So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional. My God! That means we're the majority. We're normal! It's the people who have the mommy, the daddy, the brother, the sister, the little white picket fence - those people are the freaks, man!” PeopleMenYearsMeanLittlesSeemsPastWhiteBrotherNormalTwentiesMajorityLos AngelesDisorderFreakFenceDaddySyndromesAmerican FamilyPicket Fences Author:Christopher Titus
“I met some brothers out from Canada recently who are real cool people. They make Spanish-language music called Cold Blue and I met then at a Lat-Rap conference and they seem like real good peoples from Central America... and that's what it is. It's just based on mutual respect. So when I meet people like that I'm like, "if y'all going to be real with me, I'm going to be real with y'all" and that's all it takes.” PeopleIfsRealSeemsAmericaLanguageBrotherColdMetsBlueRapCanadaMutualGood PeopleBeing RealConferencesMutual RespectCentral AmericaCool PeopleSpanish Language Author:Immortal Technique
“My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?” SeemsDifficultViewsBrotherTasksConservativeBoxesArguingScriptureGods WillConformBrothers And SistersRepentStraightforwardUnwillingStaticLifeless Author:Gene Robinson
“I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayKindMeanMadeIdeasSeemsInterestingDoorsBrotherMade ItBrokeNo IdeaMy BrotherVery InterestingInteresting Places Author:Maggie Smith
“What we love is that Glenn Geller admits to being a superfan of Big Brother and obviously he seems to be a big fan of reality TV, which is fabulous. He's been really, really excited and has just been smiling through all of our meetings so it's always a lot of fun.” BigsRealitySeemsFunLove IsFansBrotherTvsMeetingsExcitedFabulousReality Tv Author:Allison Grodner
“I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a repressed dimension - I was not able to NOT wear a shirt like my brothers could. My brothers would, in the heat, run around shirtless, and I wouldn't do that, obviously.” MomentsSeemsRunningAbleBrotherNotionRecognitionShirtsHeatMy BrotherDimensionsRepressed Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I also wanted to be like my brothers, physically, and yet not physically. So I would constantly - and I think nowadays it's taken for granted that this is what girlfriends do - I would constantly wear their shorts, put on their shirts. That did not seem odd because we were desperately poor for quite a while. It wasn't as if pretty little girlie things were available to me.” IfsThinkingLittlesSeemsWantedPoorTakenBrotherAvailableGrantedOddShirtsGirlfriendMy BrotherShortsTaken For Granted Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Their way of working [the Coen brothers] is always kept pretty mysterious. I was so curious to see how they make these movies. It was just such a joy - they seem to have so much fun making their movies.” WaySeemsJoyFunBrotherMysteriousCuriousCoen Brothers Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don't talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me. They've just memorized that stupid fact sheet. And we thought, gosh do we sound that good? It didn't seem possible. But that was my introduction to politics.” TwoMomentsFactsSeemsRememberGuySoundHeardStupidStudentsBrotherHundredArgumentFantasticMy BrotherVietnamSheetsIntroduction Author:Bill Ayers