Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Burr

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Cynthia Ozick

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

Conan O'Brien

The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.

David Gemmell

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

D. H. Lawrence

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

Danny Glover

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

Andrew Jackson

That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.

Christopher Moore

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

Bede Griffiths

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

Beck

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

B. B. King

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

B. F. Skinner

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Bill Sienkiewicz

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

Bill Sienkiewicz

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

Bede Griffiths

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Becca Fitzpatrick

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

B. B. King

God made Blues right after he made woman.

C. S. Lewis

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

C. S. Lewis

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Carl Rakosi

Friends are not made, but recognized.

Carl Jung

So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.

Billy Bob Thornton

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

Edward Norton

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.