Squaw Quotes

#1. In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.

Robert Dallek

#2. I tell you what, I don't like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I've fought 'em, hard as any man. But I never yet drew a bead on a squaw or papoose, and I despise the man who would.

Kit Carson

#3. I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#4. It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men in line!

LaVyrle Spencer

#5. The Apache don't have a word for love," he said.
"Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?"
"Tell me."
"Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

Louis L'Amour

#6. In this room hung with the trophies of culture, her story sounded melodramatic and rough. She felt like a squaw explaining how you tanned a deerskin by working brains into the bloody hide and then chewing it all over until it was soft.

Wallace Stegner

#7. Some say God caught them even before they fell.

Wilfred Owen

#8. My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

Jerry Only

#9. Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Richard M. Nixon

#10. One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

Ricardo Semler

#11. For the really scary stuff to work at the end you have to fall in love a little bit with the family and want then to be ok. And once you get the audience to buy in on that then they care. They want them to be okay.

Ron Livingston

#12. It is the violent peotry of the times written in the blood of the youth

Luis J. Rodriguez

#13. The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate.

Conrad Black

#14. What vast additions to the Conveniences and Comforts of Living might Mankind have acquired, if the Money spent in Wars had been employ'd in Works of public utility!

Benjamin Franklin

#15. You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

Roger Penske

#16. The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

Philip Larkin