1883 Indian Quotes & Sayings

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones. — Marisa Miller

Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it. — Paige Craig

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough. — Lyn Nofziger

I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control." Logan continued, "You are on an Indian reservation merely at the sufferance of the government. You are fed by the government, clothed by the government, your children are educated by the government, and all you have and are today is because of the government. If it were not for the government you would be freezing and starving today in the mountains. I merely say these things to notify you that you cannot insult the people of the United States of America or its committees ... the government feeds and clothes and educates your children now, and desires to teach you to become farmers, and to civilize you, and make you as white men.
-Senator John Logan, 1883 — Dee Brown

Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors. — Graham Parke

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. — Cecil Frank Powell

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels. — Christopher Dawson

It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Surrendered people know themselves and are empathetic toward others. They don't measure themselves by how much they are liked, nor do they compete for attention. When they sit quietly in a room, others always seem to come to them. They feel successful apart from their job or net worth. — Judith Orloff

Meteorites fell through the night sky like a gentle sleet of icefire, — Peter F. Hamilton

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person. — Ezra Koenig

Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby. — Sara Maitland