Quotes About Native American Religion

#1. Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Chief Seattle

#2. Pretentiousness is a comedy vein filled with riches.

Torry Martin

#3. Most people do not have the guts to direct their own movie - let alone star in it.

Tom Robbins

#4. Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#5. In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.

Jacque Fresco

#6. I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.

Aunjanue Ellis

#7. When in doubt, move, even if it's in the wrong direction.

Charles Nicholl

#8. Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

Khalil Gibran

#9. The world, which is sometimes too stern, compensates for its harshness with its inattention.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#10. When we tag ourselves with a particular label, we mustn't be surprised when we attract others looking for our particular item.

Charles F. Glassman

#11. 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

#12. The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

Walter Scott

#13. A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.

Alvin E. Roth

#14. Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me wish that forced conversion didn't work so extraordinarily well.

David G. McAfee

#15. Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

Pierre Corneille

#16. The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Richard Wright

#17. Call me old fashioned, but I kind of enjoy the so-called 'walk of shame.' It's really more a 'walk of pride because I got some.

Abigail Barnette

#18. A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

Marcus Aurelius

#19. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours ...

Black Elk

#20. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

Tecumseh

#21. People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

Christopher Walken

#22. The Holy Land is everywhere

Black Elk