645 Indian Quotes for You to Enjoy

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. Dee Brown

Life Paradise Resources Earth Destroy East Indian Indians Comprehend Determined Could Knew Well Equated Were Itself America Why

It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were. Dennis Banks

Change Problem Care State Churches Complicit Complicity Indian Solving Taking Between Like Were Trying Problem-Solving Who

For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it. Derek Walcott

Work Culture World Better Long Backward Tried Indian Indian Culture Give Understand West Which Viewed Exposure

It's an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan. Dev Anand

Alone Me Book Cinema Big Films Late Complete Carried Indian Brother Born Brought Mention He Institution Make Him Without Becoming Left Did Big Star Company Star Needed

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage. Dev Patel

Family Heritage Indian Yeah

Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity. Devdutt Pattanaik

World Thought Own Community Believe Every Imagination Our Alive India Indian Be Real Objectivity Obsessed Nobody Knows Real His Subjectivity Greek Person Same Same Story Stories Story Create Based Why Believes Her

The world is shrinking, and everyone is majorly interested in Indian films now. Dhanush

World Films Everyone Indian Interested Now Shrinking

I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me. Diana Quick

Life Love Me Mother Father Face Looking Looking Back Older Back Though Indian Wear See Dress Dress-Up Self Put Occasion Up Get Fantasy Much Inherited Less Special Special Occasion

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks. Diana Quick

Family Father Side Ancestry Indian About Russian Cast Gypsies Fact No Wonder Had Princesses Talked Been Discovered Blood Exotic Wonder Greeks Revolutionaries Roles Often

I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the afternoon until four in the morning. Diego Klattenhoff

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest. Donald Johanson

Experience Opportunity Digging Ancient Indian Archeological Remains Had Undergraduate Go Up Southwest Midwest Villages Number

'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music as well as poetry. Donovan

Work Music Time Sunshine Superman First Jazz Fusion Folk Indian Indian Music Poetry Well First Time Rock Pioneering Celtic Presented

In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air. Doris Duke

To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio. Douglas Brinkley

My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother. Edmonia Lewis

Perseverance Mother Father Indian Spirit Features Take Industry Get

As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do. Edward Zwick

War Men Universe Destroyed Indian Civil Civil War More More And More Had Journals Shattered Read Souls Been Began Realized Then Who Wars Whole Whose Lives Utterly

My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory. Elizabeth Warren

Together Building Our Indian Brothers About Territory Courtship Up Grew Stories Grandfather Grandparents Lives Early

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical. Emmylou Harris

Country Incredibly Musical Way Indian Names Look Got Sound Cultures Very Influenced Place Which Places Spanish Much Landscapes Many

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place. Estelle

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. Ethel Waters

Medium Guide Indian See Mysterious Had Columbus Dropped Powers Friend Close Close Friend Ohio Whenever Who Her Played

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice. Eve

Culture Nice Live Neighborhood Indian Indian Culture West Lot Where

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. Evo Morales

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