Sioux Chief Quotes & Sayings

He said the seconds were pouring off people, tiny glowing dots pouring from their skins, only no one could see them. — Cath Crowley

For after all the great religions have been preached and expounded, or have been revealed by brillant scholars, or have been written in fine books, and embellished in fine language with finer cover, man - all man- is still confronted with the Great Mystery.
Chief Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux — Helene Lapaire Justus

Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy. — Russell Peters

In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence. — Adi Godrej

reputedly consulted with the spirit of a dead Sioux Indian chief. — David McCullough

I need you, not it. And I'm done being used. If you're going to take from me, you're going to start giving back, and I'll start with your heart. — Delilah S. Dawson

We gathered up the kids and sat up on the hill. We had no time to get our chickens and no time to get our horses out of the corral. The water came in and smacked against the corral and broke the horses' legs. The drowned, and the chickens drowned. We sat on the hill and we cried. These are the stories we tell about the river," said [Ladona] Brave Bull Allard. The granddaughter of Chief Brave Bull, she told her story at a Missouri River symposium in Bismark, North Dakota, in the fall of 2003.

Before The Flood, her Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lived in a Garden of Eden, where nature provided all their needs. "In the summer, we would plant huge gardens because the land was fertile," she recalled. We had all our potatoes and squash. We canned all the berries that grew along the river. Now we don't have the plants and the medicine they used to make. — Bill Lambrecht

I don't want to be a chicken. I don't want to be a duck. So I shake my butt. — Dan Gutman

It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way. — Darlene Cates