Indian Quotes

The writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion in India shall long have ceased to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrances.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

We can say that Indian agriculture is in the midst of a major crisis.

The residential schools were designed to eradicate any sense of Indian-ness. They denied us the opportunity to learn about ourselves.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.