Indian Quotes

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.

We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.

People always think of Chinese food as the go-to ethnic food when everything else is closed during the holidays, but Indian is a nice alternative. Plus - Indians? Thanksgiving? Kinda makes sense.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.

It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

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.

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

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

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

90 percent of Indian cinema is crap

It really was a hell of a motorcycle, ..It was arguably the first American motorcycle company, beating Harley by a year or so. Indian was the standard by which everything was gauged.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.

My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

I actually studied Indian classical vocal music.

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.

India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.