Top 20 George Catlin Quotes
#1. Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.
Kevin Hancock
#2. The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
George Catlin
#3. The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
George Catlin
#5. An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
George Catlin
#6. If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
Haruki Murakami
#7. Nothing that happens is ever forgotten, even if you can't remember it.
Spirited Away
#8. Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.
Cullen Hightower
#9. I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers ... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
George Catlin
#10. I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
George Catlin
#11. The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
George Catlin
#12. The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.
George Catlin
#13. If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.
George Catlin
#14. When you discover the difference between consciousness and the brain, you will discover yourself.
Jenna Alatari
#15. I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
Kate Mara
#16. Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
George Catlin
#17. The dephness of my skin is heriditory.
the hugh of my skin is what defines me.
the color of my skin is what God gave me.
for the radience of my skin, I am not ashamed.
yes, i am black, dark and beautiful.
and underneath this mask,
i feel comfortable in my own skin.
Angela Khristin Brown
#18. A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.
George Catlin
#19. Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and meditation, understanding and awareness.
Rajneesh
#20. It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
Naoto Kan