"He used both hands when he made the……" — N. Scott Momaday
"He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God."
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31 Quotes by N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday has 31 quotes on this site.
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself…
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The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and…
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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us…
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In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
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To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense…
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I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
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For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our…
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There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens…
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It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have…
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Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.
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If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
— Teresa of Avila
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
— Teresa of Avila
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
— Lord Acton
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a…
— Amy Adams
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
— Honore de Balzac
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man…
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