Tippecanoe Quotes & Sayings

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. — Hannah Arendt

Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans. — Tecumseh

You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence. — Scott Neustadter

He might have wished us good luck," Graystripe complained. "He probably thinks we don't need it," joked Fireheart as they crossed the clearing toward Yellowfang's den. — Erin Hunter

When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion. — Mark Helprin

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything ... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious. — Ronda Rousey

Why was it that, sometimes, you needed to see people closest to you as others saw them to remember how fantastic they were? Why couldn't you always remember that? — Elizabeth Noble

She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might have been peculiar, but she was also human. — Ransom Riggs

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences. — Petrarch

I have a bad habit of wolfing down things that catch my eye. — Katze Snow

Public education puts relentless pressure on its students to conform. — Ken Robinson