"The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted. The trees and the grass have spirits. Whatever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities..."

-- Wooden Leg

#Prayer Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Native American Quotes

“Mitt Romney had a fundraiser in Israel with a bunch of diamond merchants, we don't know the names of them.”
“I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.”
“Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.”
“Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.”
“I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.”
“It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
“A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.”

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