Wasicu Lakota Quotes & Sayings

Time will explain. — Jane Austen

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen. — Bela Karolyi

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. — Benjamin Disraeli

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas. — Florence Scovel Shinn

All the world is bitter as a tear — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Coffee was served: bitter and black, like chances missed. — Hilary Mantel

The white man, as one Indian said, "was in the Black Hills just like maggots";10 wasicu, or "the greedy one" (literally, "he-who-takes-the-fat"),11 was the term the Lakota used to describe the miners, and it later became their term for whites in general. "The love of possessions is a disease with them," said Sitting Bull, who was never behindhand in his contempt. — Peter Matthiessen

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs. — Edgar Winter

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought. — Henry David Thoreau

All wars are started by angry old men, but they are fought by young men who die for reasons that are beyond them. In the end, the same old men sit around tables and the war ends. Nothing is achieved. Nothing is gained. New faces move into old castles, and the sons of the dead build families ready to feed new battleground graveyards. — David Gemmell

As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years. — David Rubenstein