Quotes About Oral

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

you can't read the Vedas; they're meant to be heard. Just the way you can't read the Beatles—you've got to hear them! There

Dating of Hindu history is always approximate and speculative, and often a range, as orally transmitted scriptures precede the written works by several centuries, and parts of the written work were composed by various scribes over several generations, in different geographies.

since if government officials know that all of their ideas and positions may be made public, it inhibits openness, candor, and trust in communications. The predictable result will be for government officials to commit ever less information to writing, either in print or in the form of emails. Instead, they will limit important matters to oral conversation. But that decreases the opportunity to carefully lay out positions.

I read Pamela Colloff's oral history about the campus shooting, '96 Minutes,' when it was first published, and my wheels immediately starting turning toward making a film and making it an animated re-telling.

When my daughter Sabrina was 2 years old, the pediatrician told me it was time she quit using a pacifier because that could make her teeth crooked and even cause infections in her ears.

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

Brush your teeth often.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

Unfortunately, there is no contemporary history of Rome prior to about 200 BC, when centuries of oral traditions were first committed to writing.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Oral cultures and literate cultures do not think, perceive or fall in

Finest specimens of human molars

she had taught a class in oral history at the community college, and Elner Shimfissle had attended with her friend Irene Goodnight.

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango tree in the evening's profound darkness, in which only the trembling voices of old men resound, because the women and children are silent, raptly listening. That is what the evening hour is so important: it is the time when the community contemplates what it is and whence it came.

Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango tree in the evening's profound darkness, in which only the trembling voices of old men resound, because the women and children are silent, raptly listening. That is why the evening hour is so important: it is the time when the community contemplates what it is and whence it came.

When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.

Four out of five dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.