Indian Quotes - Page 31

• I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.

  St. Vincent

  Spiritual, Stronger, Way

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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• I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

  Michael K. Williams

  Different, East, Culture

  "Omar Little is the gay stick-up man who robs drug dealers for a living in The Wire" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2008.

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• Many of those in the medical fraternity instantly label treatments in the traditional, natural or holistic health fields as quackery. This word is even used to describe Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Indian Ayerveda, two medical systems which are far older than Western medicine and globally just as popular.

  James Morcan

  Two, Medicine, Chinese

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• Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'

  Noureen DeWulf

  Iphone, Restaurants, Apps

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

  N. Scott Momaday

  Art, Children, Father

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• I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Different, Culture, World

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• Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Girl, Song, Teaching

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• Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.

  Ian Chappell

  Cricket

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• India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that Virgin Comics will not only help to launch the Indian comic market and spin it into the West, but will develop new and exciting talent.

  Richard Branson

  India, West, Helping

  "Virgin sets sights on film". www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2006.

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• Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Strong, Path, Steps

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• It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

  Walter Mosley

  Talking, Water, Pirate

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.115, Penguin

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• I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

  Katherine Boo

  Husband, Crazy, Years

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Commitment, Emotional, Roots

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• I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.

  Leonard Little

  Who I Am, People, Giving

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• 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 hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Nature, Native American, Men

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

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• The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted. The trees and the grass have spirits. Whatever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities.

  Wooden Leg

  Prayer, Teaching, Native American

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• The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

  Winona LaDuke

  Children, Men, White Man

  Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.99, Voyageur Press (MN)

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• If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

  William Cowper

  Home, Thieves, Purses

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.129

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• We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

  William Cowper

  Self, Tree, Shade

  William Cowper (1872). “The task, Tirocinium, and other poems”, p.8

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• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Blood, People, Black

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• Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Struggle, School

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

  Derek Jarman

  Yellow, Cows, Made

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• For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Ongoing, Sacred, American Indian

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.51, Open Road Media

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