Indian Quotes

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

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

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.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

"Indian policy" has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

The Indian is a human being.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

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

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.