Family Quote by Markham Shaw Pyle

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

“There is no substitute to living in one's native land, struggling and winning with one's own people.”

— Mario I. Miclat

“The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.”

— Padma Lakshmi

“Perhaps everybody, indigenous and not, lives on their own kind of reservation.”

— Sherman Alexie

“Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives.”

— Lisa Firestone

“Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of…

— Loki of Asgard

“There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.”

— Calvin Coolidge

“I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the…

— L. Frank Baum

“admired, even emulated. “You saw for yourselves, the Indian doesn’t need the white man to live,” he went on. “He knows how to make…

— Scott Wallace

“Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.”

— Tommy Orange

“How I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as…

— Bryce Courtenay

“Sooner or later, though, no matter where in the world we live, we must join the diaspora, venturing beyond our biological family to find…

— Armistead Maupin