Top 16 Tanka Quotes

#1. If your twin was dead, were you still a twin?

Wally Lamb

Tanka Quotes #164446
#2. Tanka
Black-and-white Holsteins
Crowd downfield at feeding time,
Mingling their blotches.
It is like ice breaking up
In a dark, swollen river.

Richard Wilbur

Tanka Quotes #242074
#3. Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Tanka Quotes #491477
#4. Wakan Tanka never stops creating.

Archie Fire Lame Deer

Tanka Quotes #600400
#5. this 97% [of climate scientists accepting human-caused global warming], that doesn't mean anything.

James Inhofe

Tanka Quotes #759643
#6. How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union.

Douglas J. Penick

Tanka Quotes #761999
#7. "Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

Luther Standing Bear

Tanka Quotes #819948
#8. The past is what the past is.

Richard Sherman

Tanka Quotes #862724
#9. The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

Swami Vivekananda

Tanka Quotes #1141604
#10. To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

Sophie Marceau

Tanka Quotes #1146640
#11. I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tanka Quotes #1234245
#12. If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.

Thomm Quackenbush

Tanka Quotes #1603188
#13. Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.

Gloria Steinem

Tanka Quotes #1614943
#14. Crime reporting was aggressive in Richmond, an old Virginia city of 220,000, which last year was listed by the FBI as having the second-highest homicide rate

Patricia Cornwell

Tanka Quotes #1675110
#15. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.

John F. Kennedy

Tanka Quotes #1675723
#16. Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

Joe Torre

Tanka Quotes #1795458

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