Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Robinson

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

Will Rogers

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

William Least Heat-Moon

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

Rick Yancey

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

Yancy Butler

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

Nate Parker

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

John Baldacci

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

Newt Gingrich

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

Julia Jones

I'm a Native American actress.

Richard Avedon

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

Sara Gilbert

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

Robert Wagner

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm the only actress in Hollywood who didn't pay to have these lips.

Vivien Leigh

I am going to be a great actress.

Vincent Price

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

Virginie LeDoyen

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.

Sandra Bullock

I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.

Troian Bellisario

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

Robert Patterson

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

R. Robinson

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

Will Rogers

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Rick Yancey

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

Yancy Butler

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

Peter Stoessel

I like to say this show represents works by Native American artists, not Native American art.

John Walker Lindh

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

Nate Parker

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

John Baldacci

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.