Lakota Life Quotes & Sayings

So if you were ranked first in your initiate class," I say, "what was Eric's rank?" -"Second."
"So he was their second choice for leadership." I nod slowly. "And you were their first." -"What makes you say that?"
"The way Eric was acting at dinner the first night. Jealous, even though he has what he wants. — Veronica Roth

It was the very fact of the note, stuck on my windshield on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, hundreds of miles from where Fatback had lived and, apparently, died. That, and the small deerskin pouch of tobacco that was tied to it. Fatback was a black Lab - a good dog - who had belonged to Dan, an elderly Lakota man who lived far out on the Dakota plains. Years before, as a result of a book of elders' memories I had done with students at Red Lake, Dan had contacted me to come out to his home to speak with him. His request was vague, and I had been both skeptical and apprehensive. But, reluctantly, I had gone, and it had changed my life. We had worked together, traveled together, and created a book together in which the old man told his stories and memories and thoughts about Indian people and our American land. — Kent Nerburn

My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany. — Blake Bailey

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world? — James Hillman

Follow my passion and surf the best waves on the planet — Robert Sabelstrom

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead. — Rollo May

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait. — Robin Hobb

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it. — Bear Bryant

Tate practically raised you from what I hear. You love him, don't you?"
Her face closed up. "For all the good it will ever do me, yes," she said softly.
"He won't have the excuse of pure Lakota blood much longer," he advised.
"I'm not holding out for miracles anymore," she vowed. "I'm going to stop wanting what I can never have. From now on, I'll take what I can get from life and be satisfied with it. Tate will have to find his own way."
"That's sour grapes," he observed.
"You bet it is. What do you want me to do to help?"
"It's dangerous," he pointed out, hesitating as he considered her youth. "I don't know ... "
"I'm a card-carrying archeologist," she reminded him. "Haven't you ever watched an Indiana Jones movies? We're all like that," she told him with a wicked grin. "Mild-mannered on the outside and veritable world-tamers inside. I can get a whip and a fedora, too, if you like," she added. — Diana Palmer

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye

I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera, — James Gandolfini

One of his brows lifted in a rather superior manner. "And you wouldn't classify your brothers as rakes?"
"They only think they are rakes," she corrected. "There is a considerable difference."
Simon snorted. "If Anthony isn't a rake, I pity the woman who meets the man who is."
-Simon & Daphne — Julia Quinn

To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar. — Derek Thompson

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return — Amin Maalouf

I would rather be a rebel than a slave. — Emmeline Pankhurst