Indian Quotes

822 Indian quotes by 517 unique authors

The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first… — Tony Horwitz
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a… — Judy Blundell
If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to… — Ricky Schroder
I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means. — Anushka Sharma
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social… — Sherman Alexie
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. — Nelson A. Miles
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left… — John Banville
I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I… — Lleyton Hewitt
An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian. — N. Scott Momaday
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing. — Paula Gunn Allen
Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music. — Georgie Fame
As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is… — Mahatma Gandhi
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in… — Norah Jones
The only good Indian is a dead Indian — William Tecumseh Sherman
Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good… — Thomas Szasz
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were… — Mark Twain
You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent. — Joe Biden
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. — James A. Baldwin
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the… — George Catlin
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of… — Unknown Author
She's Cherokee Indian, which is great 'cause whenever we have sex, it rains. — Jay Mohr
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not… — Kabir
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms… — Unknown Author
The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the… — Doug Peacock

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