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.

Tori Amos

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

Valerie June

I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.

Salman Rushdie

Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

Will Rogers

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

Washington Irving

Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

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.

Chris DiMarco

I would take 10-under and go home and see how it does.

Jim Delany

I would stay home and spend that money on your programs,

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Maurice Freeman

Just with our schedule being as tough as it's going to be, we're trying to find someone that will come play us at home for two years.

Renee Luker

I take naps on my lunch hour if I need to in someone's office or at least rest. I have to go home after work and get as much rest as I can.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Katie Carroll

I also hope that those with Jill have come to know her - that they recognize what a wonderful person she is and realize that they can show the world that they are merciful to an innocent woman by returning her safely home to us.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Scott Anderson

I was kind of under the impression that very little research was meaningful in medicine ? that their work was frivolous. Every time I was able to deny a project, I felt I had gained a victory that these animals didn't have to be used in research.

Martin Chalfie

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

Lanny Davis

Knowing those animals are locked up, not able to do any more harm that's one satisfaction. I do not look at them as humans. Humans don't do that.

Karen Miller

Knowing Tara and April, this is exactly what they do. They would never put down an animal unless they had to.

Brian Jacques

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is.

Amy Davis

Kids are just interested in animals. But it's much more than that. They have certain responsibilities they have to meet, and many want the challenge. It teaches real-life skills. Sports works for some people, something like this works for others.

Brian Hill

Just like the Medical Center, we had water in the Zoo. We lost one small animal that was spooked by the weather. All of the other animals came through during Tropical Storm Allison. During Alicia, I am told by some of the veteran zookeepers, that we lost two birds.

Tony Martin

I suspect that the animal may be in ill health.

Tom Williams

I think it's a horrible thing that somebody put this horse through and this family through. Anyone who would do this cruel of thing to an animal should be put in jail, that's my thought.