Native Elders Quotes

#1. YOU CANNOT THINK YOURSELF INTO RIGHT LIVING. YOU LIVE YOURSELF INTO RIGHT THINKING. - Native Elders

Gloria Steinem

#2. From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.

Joseph Bruchac

#3. The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty ... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation ... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad ... Truth matters because of beauty.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. She did not know yet that splendor is something in the heart; at the moment when she realized that and melted into the passion of the universe he could take her without question or regret.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons.

Gillian Armstrong

#6. My mother had a kindness
that embraced all life.
She knew her place well
and was comfortable in giving everything she had.

This is the tradition of native women.

Dan George

#7. Then a moment passed and all was changed.

Samuel Beckett

#8. Many people spend time studying the properties of animals or herbs; how much more important it would be to study those of people, with whom we must live or die!

Baltasar Gracian

#9. As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

#10. Knowledge is not a heritage to be passed on so much as it is something to be created and continually increased

Peter Beyer

#11. Speaking to bloggers on a daily basis.

Nan Aron

#12. When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

Kim Cattrall

#13. The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

Jaron Lanier

#14. It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

Albert Hofmann

#15. For a chance with you, I can wait.

Myra McEntire

#16. God encounters are to occur and continue throughout the life of a believer, constantly bringing each of us into a higher level of spiritual consciousness, constantly sharpening our spiritual senses, constantly challenging our complacency and status quo mentality.

Robin Bertram

#17. The people who get hurt in a falling market are the ones who need to sell as it's falling.

Dave Liniger

#18. Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Marianne Williamson

#19. The best thing I ever did was figure out how to hide a pistol in my brassiere. The second best thing I ever did was let Thomas figure out how to find it, but that's a story for another day. - Alice Healy

Seanan McGuire

#20. Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

Thomas Haden Church

#21. What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

Wade Davis

#22. One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.

Joseph Bruchac