Quotes and Sayings about Native American

When you discover you're riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

The name was never a label. It was, and continues to be, a badge of honor… it is a symbol of everything we stand for: strength, courage, pride, and respect - the same values we know guide Native Americans and which are embedded throughout their rich history as the original Americans.

You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides. You will play golf and enjoy hot hors d'oeuvres. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They have said, "Do not trust the Pilgrims. Especially Sarah Miller." And for all these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground!

Football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Not only are you wrong... but you are belligerently sticking to your guns and insulting me in the process. Robin Scherbatsky, you are an American.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

If you don't like your job, you don't strike: you just go in every day and do it really half a-sed. That's the American way.

Laughter is America's most important export.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

When the nations of the world look upon the United States, they see a country which has achieved what they would all like to become one day. Whether it is in the field of science, art, music, agriculture, politics, economics or war, the United States is the leader.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

'It is as though I have a black dog and a white dog inside me fighting each other constantly.' The black dog, he explained, represented evil and the white dog represented good. The missionary asked him, 'Which dog wins the fight within you?' After several moments of silence, the native said, 'The dog that wins is the one I feed and the dog that loses is the one I starve.'

Amanda: "I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies."
Wednesday: "Are they made from real Girl Scouts?"

Weems: "No doubt you'll find something that tickles your fancy."
Wednesday: "The last person who tickled me lost a finger."

Dead people are notoriously bad at returning calls.

I call horses "divine mirrors" - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.

As an organization, we are excited to rally and rise together as one under our new identity while paying homage to our local roots and what it means to represent the nation's capital.

I'll never change the name of the Redskins. You have my word on that.

Get our guys fired up, ready to go, prepared, full of energy, and then we go out and compete. It's kind of like we put our neck out there each week, right? Some weeks it gets chopped off. I'd like this week to be one of those weeks where it does not get chopped off.

If you could, say, draw it up, I'd be a Redskin the rest of my career.

Gomez: "He has my father's eyes."
Morticia: "Gomez, take those out of his mouth."

Morticia: "Wednesday's at that very special age when a girl has only one thing on her mind."
Grandmother: "Boys?"
Wednesday: "Homocide."

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

What I value most in my friends is loyalty.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

Finally, you will be among pears who understand you. Maybe you'll even make some friends.

Uncle Fester: "Your first cigar!"
Gomez: "What? Come on, old man, I've smoked since I was 5 - Mother insisted."