Tecumseh Famous Quotes
"Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, NEVER NEVER."
Tecumseh Quotations
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."
Bertrand Russell
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
"When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred."
Sun Bear
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R D Laing
Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
John Rogers
"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth."
Charles A Dana
A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
Confucius
"Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing."
Aesop
"What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love"
Victor Hugo