#totem

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#baseball #basketball #bottom #coverage #field

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#beautiful woman #madonna #only #painted #queen

Animals are not only beholders of great beauty, but they are also beholders of ancient wisdom. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#animal-totem #animal-wisdom #beauty #beholders #inspiration

The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#shamanism #totemism #nature

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#african-american women #american women #bottom #colour #get

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#far #go #pole #seventh #sixth

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think. ↗

— Barry Zito

#comes #god #people #pole #pray

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. ↗

— Emily Carr

#absolutely #attached #depicting #detail #every

The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams. ↗

— Karen Joy Fowler

#omens #totems #dreams

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fashionable #longer #masks #new #new york