Clifford Geertz Quotes

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

Clifford Geertz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 23, 1926 - October 30, 2006

Topics

FatherMotherBrotherHorseNever

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

Joe Mantegna

GodBelieveYouSideGoingFlip

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Amelia Earhart

TwoEveryoneKindsStonesKnows

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

Sloane Crosley

FunnyTruthHumorI AmPeopleMe

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I AmPhysicianWriteScientistAm

I kind of have to bite my tongue sometimes with my lyrics.

Rob Halford

TongueSometimesKindBiteLyrics

The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly protected. But at the same time, history tends to repeat itself here, and so it might not repeat itself in exactly the same way as Benghazi.

Mitchell Zuckoff

HistoryTimeMissionWillWayNever

I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

Anthony Hamilton

MomentChurchHeavenDownBoySwing

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.

Ally Carter

ParentsNeverFirstThingsBoxes

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.

Philippe Petit

LearningKnowledgeMagicYouMore

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

Pierre Loti

GodDeterminationMyselfMeFast

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

Leonard Mlodinow

ExperienceConnectionHumanSuffer

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

Glenn Greenwald

WallStreetPopulistEvenSomeSort

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