"The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies."

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Source : Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press

Mary Brave Bird

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“Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to â€˜play Godâ€™, the world as we know it wouldnâ€™t exist today.”
“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.”
“We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.”
“We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all pass by. Christian! So does our life. . .I was an infant, and that time has gone. I was an adolescent, and that too has passed. I was a young man, and that too is far behind me. The strong and mature man that I was is no more. My hair turns white, I succumb to age, but that too passes; I approach the end and will go the way of all flesh. I was born in order to die. I die that I may live. Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom!”
“People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.”
“Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.”

Source : Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins
“As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.”
“Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.”

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