Indian Quotes

822 Indian quotes by 517 unique authors

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman. — Patricia Briggs
Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written… — Francesca Lia Block
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And… — Sherman Alexie
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being… — Nancy Mitford
Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme;… — William Shakespeare
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.… — Jeanette Winterson
Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions… — Edward Abbey
Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon,… — Leslie Marmon Silko
My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together,… — Stephenie Meyer
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.… — Arundhati Roy
You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters,… — Ray Bradbury
The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The… — Robert Fulghum
The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a… — Craig Johnston
The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air. — Wallace Stegner
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes. — Gregory David Roberts
But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust… — Jack Kerouac
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the… — David Hume
An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess. — Wilma Mankiller
We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead,… — Jared Diamond
It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're… — Sherman Alexie
Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and… — Paulo Coelho
The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of… — Katherine Boo
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem… — Agatha Christie

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