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Native American Quotes by Luther Standing Bear
- Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where…
- We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and…
- For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
- The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the…
- Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one…
- The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
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- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
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- Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
- Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop
- This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream,… — Michael Bloomberg
- Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. — Spiro T. Agnew
- I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans -… — Beau Bridges
- We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will… — Tom Brown, Jr.
- They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her… — Sitting Bull
- What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen… — Sitting Bull
- Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. — Sitting Bull