"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."

Family, Men, Aggression, Fact

42

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Family quotes

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Family, Identity, People, Life

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Center, Surrounds

"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Family, Mother, Water, Wrong

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Mother, Story, Beginning, Life

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Support, Love, Caring

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Forgiveness, Training, Life

"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Family, Respect, Positivity, Speech

"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."

John Millington Synge, Irish Poet

Family, Sister

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Family, Children, Deeds

Explore more quotes by T. E. Lawrence

"It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."

Men

"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."

Truth

"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."

Circumstance

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

Dream

"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought."

Thought

"The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God."

God

"To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin."

Action

"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."

Press

"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor."

People

"Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch."

Children

42