TOPIC
AUTHOR
Close
Search
Close
Search
Close
Search
Close
Search
EVENTS
MEMBERS
LOGIN
SIGN UP
Quotes
Topics
Pictures
Questions
Authors
Blog
About
Terms
Privacy
Sitemap
Get in Touch
Advertise
Removal Request
Subscribe
Contact Us
Social
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Pinterest
Close
Submit Quote
Latest Quotes
Browse our latest quotes
Topic List
Categorized list of quote topics
Famous Authors
Alphabetical list of influential authors
Picture Quotes
Custom and user added quotes with pictures
Quotes
Questions
Submit Quote
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Alan Dundes
0 Likes
0 Comments
RELATED QUOTES
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
Alan Dundes
0 Likes
Sponsored Links
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
Alan Dundes
1 Likes
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
Alan Dundes
1 Likes
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
Alan Dundes
1 Likes
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
Alan Dundes
0 Likes
Sponsored Links
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
Alan Dundes
0 Likes
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
Alan Dundes
4 Likes
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
Alan Dundes
6 Likes
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
Alan Dundes
2 Likes
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
Alan Dundes
0 Likes
Sponsored Links
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
Alan Dundes
1 Likes
Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
Alan Dundes
0 Likes
TRENDING
TRENDING TOPICS
May 03
Be Positive
Bitter Love
Clothes
Comfort
Cure
Design
Faith
Finding Yourself
Games
Life Lesson
Life Mistakes
Marine Wife
Men And Women
Moving Forward
Prejudice
Real People
Respect
Self-awareness
Step Parents
Wise
ABOUT
Terms
Privacy Policy
Removal Request
Sitemap
Contact Us
OUR GOAL
Our goal is to help you by delivering amazing quotes to bring inspiration, personal growth, love and happiness to your everyday life.
© 2024 SearchQuotes™