Indian Tribe Quotes

#1. An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

Russell Smith

#2. Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

Jared Diamond

#3. Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

Paul Theroux

#4. I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

Evan Hunter

#5. I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I'd felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did.

Jennifer Lopez

#6. To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

Hugh Downs

#7. If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi ... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom of religion was cherished as a sacrosanct American right -- everywhere, that is, but on the archipelago of Indian life.

Timothy Egan

#9. Truth resides in the wealth of experience.

Marty Rubin

#10. All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

Oprah Winfrey

#11. I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe.

Anna Mae Aquash

#12. See into life, don't just look at it.

Anne Baxter

#13. An old chief of the Crow tribe from Montana was once asked to describe the difference between his tribe and the whites who lived nearby. Pausing slightly and drawing his conclusions, he remarked that the white man has ideas, the Indian has visions. The

Vine Deloria Jr.

#14. We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhere
Making love while we let the midnight air
Flow through the open window, into our closed hearts
Left bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart

Jessica-Lynn Barbour

#15. The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.

Thomas Merton

#16. The blue vault was far,that we couldn't clasp a meaning,since my thought joined her like Raindrop upon her petals.

Nithin Purple

#17. Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

Roger Bannister

#18. I've been trying to get Mr. Finchem to lengthen 5 and 7 and 14 and 18 - and he's being a mule,

Pete Dye

#19. Visiting Florence was like attending a surprise party every day.

Jennifer Coburn