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Thomas Yellowtail
"The manner with which we walk through life is each man's most important responsibility, and we should remember this with every new sunrise." --
Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.76, University of Oklahoma Press
Thomas Yellowtail
#Responsibility Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Sunrise Quotes
“A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.”
“Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.”
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
“One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.”
“Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know for sure that natural selection, as a process, does work. There is a mountain of experimental and observational evidence, much of it predating genetics, which shows that natural selection as a biological process works.”
“Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.”
“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.”