Chief Dan George Quotes

#1. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.

Chief Dan George

#2. We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.

Chief Dan George

#3. May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears.

Chief Dan George

#4. I don't remember those early playoff games. Keep it positive. I'm a different player. More focused. I know how important it is to score in the playoffs.

Pavel Datsyuk

#5. If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.

Chief Dan George

#6. Good. Come along you lot. And stay in pairs. You look like shit after someone ate beans. I will need more swear words, too; I love the startled faces when I use them.

K.F. Breene

#7. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.

Chief Dan George

#9. Oh God! Like the Thunderbird of old I
shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab
the instruments of the white man's success
- his education, his skills, and with these
new tools I shall build my race into the
proudest segment of your society.

Chief Dan George

#10. The heart never knows the colour of the skin

Chief Dan George

#11. If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

Chief Dan George

#12. I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

Mary Ann Mobley

#13. Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

Chief Dan George

#15. My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

Chief Dan George

#16. Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.

Vijender Singh

#17. If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

Chief Dan George

#18. Love is something we must have. We must have it because our spirits feed upon it.

Chief Dan George

#19. I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

David Ogden Stiers

#20. First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

Chief Dan George

#21. I never was what I should be.

Henry James

#22. There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.

Chief Dan George

#23. Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.

Chief Dan George

#24. When I first got here, every time you'd say breast feeding on the House floor there would be a snicker. This has been happening since creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?

Susan Molinari

#25. My order from Starbucks is an ice chai with one less pump of chai because I feel like they put too much, and it's, like, too sweet, and it's overwhelming.

Gigi Hadid

#26. Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.

Chief Dan George