![[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-africa-i-was-a-member-of-a-familyof-a-sort-of-family-that-the-people-of-you.jpg)
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zoos men atheism
Why do men go to zoos? H. L. Mencken
expression freedom lived states united
See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money! E. Hicks
expression sly
On the sly, scoping for love. Aretha Franklin
expression simplicity form
Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form. Bruce Lee
expression long strange
What a long strange trip it's been. Jerry Garcia
expression self denial
I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial. Winston Churchill
expression light despair
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. Yann Martel
expression giving joy
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given. Pope Benedict XVI
expression soul hints
He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious. Nathaniel Hawthorne
expression appreciate preparation
You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is. [...] Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else. Shunryu Suzuki
hands oysters cities
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Jan Morris
hands profound looks
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women! Burt Ward
hands challenges goes-on
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge. Carnie Wilson
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Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry. Elizabeth Scott
hands long people
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere. Bobby Seale
hands style hand-in-hand
I knew style and content went hand in hand. Boy George
hands lord results
It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him. Brigham Young
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There's no way around it. Over here, if you want to sell a lot of records, you have to go to local radio stations in Dayton, Ohio, and shake the hands of men with satin jackets.
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I didn't get my hair styled today. I actually stuck my hand in a socket and this is the way it turned out. Clinton Portis