Abenaki People Quotes

#1. My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.

Joseph Bruchac

#2. Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.

Saint John Chrysostom

#3. The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.

Jodi Picoult

#4. When you wear a tattered cloth to a banquet of the honorable, you look weird

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

Sarah Caudwell

#6. The world isn't big enough for all of us.

S.R. Crawford

#7. My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.

Joseph Bruchac

#8. Terry recalled far better days when she'd risen bright and early every morning.... Days before darkness had closed in and refused to leave....

Dawn M. Turner

#9. The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.

J.I. Packer

#10. By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

Jo Brand