Haisla Quotes & Sayings

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. — Sophocles

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow. — Edmond Rostand

Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla. — Eden Robinson

Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime. — Ted Alexandro

for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly. — Sanober Khan

The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches. — Eden Robinson

The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home. — Eden Robinson

You don't need some vintage thing with another woman's secrets stuck to the seams. — Carrie Firestone

We know fun. Like two weekends ago we stayed up all night watching a documentary marathon on the brain." She rolled her eyes toward Erin. "We're positively wild. — Jenny B. Jones

socially connected will be a lifelong need, like food and warmth. — Matthew D. Lieberman

So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it: — George Saunders

I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent. — Bill Bryson

And the irony is that the war purchases are recorded as a positive for economic growth and the GDP. Though the war spending is an economic negative and provides no improvement in the people's standard of living, the government statisticians brag about an upward blip in the GDP. Besides, these bills are paid for by borrowing and printing money, thus increasing future debt obligations and causing higher prices for the next generation. — Ron Paul

You are what you read. — Nancy Petralia

I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast. — Eden Robinson

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing. — Moby

On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people. — Eden Robinson

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu