Native american quotes

[firecrest]

A person is only really dead when the last person last remembers them.

 

[Mike Ameling]

Indian Scout on returning to report to Gen:G.A. Custer at Little Big Horn.
"Yellow hair, you ain't gonna like this"

And Custer saying to his laughing Indian scout:

"I thought you said there was just a ... flock of Crows ... over that hill?"


It takes a village to raise a child -- NO, it takes a PARENT!!!! A REAL parent!
And Hilary? Your village called - they want their idiot back!


Or a stereotypical one:

Irish lad in a pub watching a fight between two people:
"Is this a private fight or can anybody join in?"

A Biblical one:

Noah to one of his sons: "I thought YOU brought the Unicorns"

For the learned types:

Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because it is absurd.

Just to define a new word:

I'm not a vegetarian nor a carnivore. I'm an opportunivore!

Or social comment:

It is better to be drunk than idiot , it does not last as long .

Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone!

Some Cowboy/Old West?

Always get the coffee water upstream from the herd.

Never squat when wearing spurs!

It's not the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog.

And a few more ... general ones:

God gives us children so that death isn't such a disappointment.

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." -- Mark Twain

"You can't run with the big dogs if you still pee like a puppy."


Had enough? I can post more.

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

 

[hog]

Lone Ranger to Tonto- Looks like we are surrounded.
Tonto to lone Ranger- What do you mean WE pale face.

 

[Rod]

"All things are connected like the blood which unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself" Chief Seattle

 

[HillBill]

When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it.
No taxes no debt women did all the work.
White man thought he could improve on a system like this
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When a white army battles Indians and wins its called a great victory.
But, if they lose it is called a massacre.
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[ForgeCorvus]

One I've liked since I first read it (and I havn't a clue where)

"Look not back with regret, nor around in fear, but forwards with awareness "


Thinking about it, it might be someones sig ?



A funny one
White settler, "Right then Mr Indian, we'll buy all of Manhatten Island off you for these beads"
Mr I. " Get stuffed pale-face"
WS, "I've got a Big Gun"
Mr I. "Hummm, nice beads"

 

[wicca]

Not a native American saying but a nice compliment. I think on one of the Bushcraft dvd's it was remarked that the first white settlers reported the lands of North America as being "Thousands of miles of unspoilt country" not bad, when you consider the locals had lived there for many millennia.

 

[Tengu]

But it wasnt, was it?

I think these guys lacked in Philosophers.

Back to the Classics, methinks.

 

[ANDYRAF]

I liked this saying from the Centennial series " only the rocks live forever".

Andy

 

[rivermom]

My favourite Indian saying was that time when Frost was interviewing the Native American and asked "What did your people call America before the white man arrived?"
The guy gave him a long look and, in his wonderfully deep voice softly said
"Ours".
Man, I nearly cracked up.

 

[African]

Not native American quotes but I like them

Resist much obey little - Walt Witman

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest - D Diderot

 

[spoonman]

As seen below

 

[john scrivy]

Ma shar la harla hey nor weeny - Apache Indian -- meaning GO IN PEICE WHITE MAN its said as its spelt also with the jesture of the right hand held over the heart the hand then entended to the person whom spoken to

 

[moccasintracks]

When you dance with Elephants;

do not be out of step.

 

[wanderinstar]

From Native American Indian Traditional Code of Ethics, all about respect.

Once a council has decided something in unity, respect demands that no one speak secretly against what has been decided. If the council has made an error, that error will become apparent to everyone in its own time.


Very poignant I think with modern day forums.