--- title: "1 Ancestors Lived Quotes By Diana Palmer" description: "1 Ancestors Lived quotes by Diana Palmer. Plus more from Diana Palmer and more Ancestors Lived sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/diana-palmer-4730_american-history_i-know-he-s-had-his-problems-in-the-past_939990.jpg" --- > [“I know he’s had his problems in the past… “He can’t keep his hands off a liquor bottle at the best of times, and he still hasn’t accepted the loss of his wife!” “I sent him to a therapist over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/i-know-he-s-had-his-problems-in-the-past-he-can-t-keep-his-hands-off/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/diana-palmer-4730_american-history_i-know-he-s-had-his-problems-in-the-past_939990.jpg) ## More by Diana Palmer > [“Go ahead. Ask me who the father is.” He only smiled. “Do I look that stupid to you?” She pushed back her short hair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/go-ahead-ask-me-who-the-father-is-he-only-smiled-do-i-look-that/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“So the bloodline wasn’t pure.” He shook his head. “It was an excuse, like all the other excuses. I liked my life as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/so-the-bloodline-wasn-t-pure-he-shook-his-head-it-was-an-excuse-like/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Revolutionaries can't afford to worry about tomorrow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/revolutionaries-can-t-afford-to-worry-about-tomorrow/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“You need a battle plan,” Matt advised. “I never left the base without detailed reconnaissance and a battle plan. It’s why I came home…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/you-need-a-battle-plan-matt-advised-i-never-left-the-base-without/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/no-revolution-succeeds-without-sacrifice/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Yes?” he said impatiently. There was a pause. “You wouldn’t believe how many people I had to bribe to get this new number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/yes-he-said-impatiently-there-was-a-pause-you-wouldn-t-believe-how/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Leta walked to the door and opened it with a ready smile for Colby Lane. And found herself looking straight into the eye of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/leta-walked-to-the-door-and-opened-it-with-a-ready-smile-for-colby/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Pity Matt didn’t help him through a window instead of over a sofa,” she grumbled. “He needs an attitude adjustment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/pity-matt-didn-t-help-him-through-a-window-instead-of-over-a-sofa-she/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Leta will manage. She’s tough. But Tate is going to learn some things that will hurt him badly. I think he should hear it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/leta-will-manage-she-s-tough-but-tate-is-going-to-learn-some-things/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. 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But a full-blooded Native American…she was horrified.” Cecily’s opinion of the legendary Maureen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/a-little-drop-of-native-american-blood-was-exciting-and-unique-but-a/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“She pulled the shawl closer as a tall, lithe figure cut across the parking lot and joined her at the passenger door. “You’re already…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/she-pulled-the-shawl-closer-as-a-tall-lithe-figure-cut-across-the/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancestors-lived/diana-palmer/#itemlist", "name": "1 Ancestors Lived Quotes By Diana Palmer", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I know he’s had his problems in the past… “He can’t keep his hands off a liquor bottle at the best of times, and he still hasn’t accepted the loss of his wife!” “I sent him to a therapist over in Baltimore,” she continued. “He’s narrowed his habit down to a six-pack of beer on Saturdays.” “What does he get for a reward?” he asked insolently. She sighed irritably. “Nobody suits you! You don’t even like poor old lonely Senator Holden.” “Like him? Holden?” he asked, aghast. “Good God, he’s the one man in Congress I’d like to burn at the stake! I’d furnish the wood and the matches!” “You and Leta,” she said, shaking her head. “Now, listen carefully. The Lakota didn’t burn people at the stake,” she said firmly. She went on to explain who did, and how, and why. He searched her enthusiastic eyes. “You really do love Native American history, don’t you?” She nodded. “The way your ancestors lived for thousands of years was so logical. They honored the man in the tribe who was the poorest, because he gave away more than the others did. They shared everything. They gave gifts, even to the point of bankrupting themselves. They never hit a little child to discipline it. They accepted even the most blatant differences in people without condemning them.” She glanced at Tate and found him watching her. She smiled self-consciously. “I like your way better.” “Most whites never come close to understanding us, no matter how hard they try.” “I had you and Leta to teach me,” she said simply. “They were wonderful lessons that I learned, here on the reservation. I feel…at peace here. At home. I belong, even though I shouldn’t.” He nodded. “You belong,” he said, and there was a note in his deep voice that she hadn’t heard before. Unexpectedly he caught her small chin and turned her face up to his. He searched her eyes until she felt as if her heart might explode from the excitement of the way he was looking at her. His thumb whispered up to the soft bow of her mouth with its light covering of pale pink lipstick. He caressed the lower lip away from her teeth and scowled as if the feel of it made some sort of confusion in him. He looked straight into her eyes. The moment was almost intimate, and she couldn’t break it. Her lips parted and his thumb pressed against them, hard. “Now, isn’t that interesting?” he said to himself in a low, deep whisper. “Wh…what?” she stammered. His eyes were on her bare throat, where her pulse was hammering wildly. His hand moved down, and he pressed his thumb to the visible throb of the artery there. He could feel himself going taut at the unexpected reaction. It was Oklahoma all over again, when he’d promised himself he wouldn’t ever touch her again. Impulses, he told himself firmly, were stupid and sometimes dangerous. And Cecily was off limits. Period. He pulled his hand back and stood up, grateful that the loose fit of his buckskins hid his physical reaction to her. “Mother’s won a prize,” he said. His voice sounded oddly strained. He forced a nonchalant smile and turned to Cecily. She was visibly shaken. He shouldn’t have looked at her. 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