Reservations Quotes
134 quotes by 124 authors
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
— Buffalo Bill
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I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
— Sherman Alexie
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very,…
— Sherman Alexie
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We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development…
— Abul Kalam Azad
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Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.
— Arthur Miller
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
— Sitting Bull
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself…
— C.S. Lewis
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You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was born where there…
— Ten Bears
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If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some…
— Immanuel Kant
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There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in our society. Last…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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You got your resolutions... We just got reservations.
— Drake
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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that…
— Eric Hoffer
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If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.
— Carla Hall
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Wayne: I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them ..... the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for…
— John Wayne
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
— Mackenzie Astin
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There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with…
— Edward Abbey
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The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain…
— Alexander Hamilton
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"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to…
— Luther Standing Bear
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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…
— Jonathan Ott
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