"These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating"

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Source : Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

Vine Deloria Jr.

#Fierce Quotes #Fit Quotes #Figures Quotes

“Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?”

Source : Song: Lions, Tigers and Bears
“I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.”
“As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.”
“Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.”
“Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.60, Library of Alexandria
“New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.”
“I was a wonderful parent before I had children.”

Source : Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish, Joanna Faber (2012). “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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