Northern Tribes

Famous quotes containing the words northern tribes, northern and/or tribes:

    In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.
    Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    All the shad’wy tribes of Mind,
    In braided dance their murmurs joined,
    William Collins (1721–1759)