Indian Quotes - Page 11

• We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.

  Jared Diamond

  War, Musical, Majority

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• It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.

  Sherman Alexie

  Stupid, Believe, Circles

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• Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy.” In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Joy, Saws

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.18, Booklassic

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• The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

  Katherine Boo

  Justice, Guilt, Criminals

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.94, Portobello Books

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• When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Sea, Islands

  Agatha Christie (1982). “And Then There Were None”, Pocket

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• Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Hunting, Law, Like You

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

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• Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Thinking, Looks

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• In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Kings, Rain, Moon

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• Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood.

  Andrew Marvell

  Time, Love You, Thinking

  'To His coy Mistress' (1681) l. 1

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• There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth.

  Floyd Red Crow Westerman

  Life, Truth, Memories

  "Fictional character: Albert Hosteen". "The X-Files", (1993–2002, 2016–18), Season 3. The Blessing Way [3.01], September 22, 1995.

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• Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful.

  Eliot Pattison

  Drama, Captivity, Amy

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• She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I amwithout adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.

  Sharon Maas

  Country, Independence, World

  Sharon Maas (2014). “Of Marriageable Age”, p.395, Bookouture

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• The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.

  John Coleman

  War, Textiles, Wrecks

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• I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

  George Crook

  Character, Thinking, Relation

  George Crook (1986). “General George Crook: His Autobiography”, p.229, University of Oklahoma Press

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• If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

  George Crook

  Government, Broken, Trouble

  George Crook (1986). “General George Crook: His Autobiography”, p.229, University of Oklahoma Press

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• When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

  George Crook

  Doe, Care, Chiefs

  George Crook (1986). “General George Crook: His Autobiography”, p.229, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Race, Europe, Roots

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.357, Courier Corporation

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• I am excited about Indian Grand Prix F1 race. I will support the Force India team. I have friends like Michael Schumacher but I will support Force India because that is the Indian team and country comes first.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Country, Team, Race

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• The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Adventure, Giving

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• Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Distance, Ocean, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1794, Manonmani Publishers

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• Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

  Abraham Verghese

  Loyalty, Broken, Lovely

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• All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Web Of Life, Earth Day

  Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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• I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Women, Voice, White

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• The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

  Robert Trout

  Easter, Army, India

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• No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Home, Ethos, People

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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