Please give me some quotes?

Question

I need one good quote for and english project thats due tomorrow. Tell me your favorite quotes (serious ones please) 10 points for the best answer.

Answer 1

When the white man discovered this
country Indians were running it.
No taxes no debt, women did all the work
White man thought he could improve on a system like this.
Old Cherokee Saying

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We, the great mass of the people think only of the
love we have for our land, we do love the land
where we were brought up. We will never let our hold
to this land go, to let it go it will be like throwing
away (our) mother that gave (us) birth.
Letter from Aitooweyah to John Ross,
Principal Chief of the Cherokees.

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Grown men can learn from very little children
for the hearts of the little children are pure.
Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them
many things which older people miss.
Black Elk

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A very great vision is needed and the man
who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks
the deepest blue of the sky.
Crazy Horse

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I am tired of fighting...from where the sun now stands,
I will fight no more.
Chief Joseph

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The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all
will smile upon this land...
and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.
Chief Joseph

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Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
Indian Proverb

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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree,
the man, the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Chief Seattle

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When a white army battles Indians and wins, it
is called a great victory, but if they lose it
is called a massacre.
Chiksika, Shawnee

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We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to
our native land, the country the Great Spirit gave our
Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that
gave us birth, it is with sorrow we are forced by the
white man to quit the scenes of our childhood...we bid
farewell to it and all we hold dear.
Charles Hicks, Tsalagi (Cherokee) Vice Chief
speaking of The Trail of Tears, Nov. 4, 1838

Answer 2

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."


"A Person cannot discover new oceans until he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

An is is just a was that was and that is very small… and is is was so soon it almost wasn’t is at all. For is is only is until it is a was-you see… And as an is advances- to remain an is can’t be ‘cause if it is to stay an is it isn’t is because another is is where it was and is is then a was. ~ Tom Hicks

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
~ James Baldwin



there are a few... have fun,

Answer 3

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

Answer 4

"An is, is just a was that was, and that is very small. Is, is was, so soon it almost wasn't is at all. For is, is only is until it is a was.You see? And as an is advances to remain an, is can’t be, because if it is to stay an is, it isn't is because another is is where it was, and is, is then a was." ~ Tom Hicks

Please make sure you get the punctuation in the quotations properly or they are not quotations at all, its a riddle.


"God, I love the smell of napalm in the morning." ~ Apocalypse Now


"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." ~ Author Unknown


Good Luck and Better Education!!!!!

Answer 5

How bout some stuff from some good literature? Maybe some stuff from The Great Gatsby, Ordinary People, or maybe even The Catcher in the Rye?

"War…War never changes.
The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory.
Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.
But war never changes."

"The rich get richer, and the poor get - children."
The Great Gatsby

"Gatsby believed in the green light."
The Great Gatsby

"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody.
Catcher in the Rye

"Then she introduced me to the Navy guy. His name was Commander Blop or something. He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God, I hate that stuff."
Catcher in the Rye

"If you had a million years to do it, you couldn't rub out even half the "**** you" signs in the world."
Catcher in the Rye

You can't break the ball. Can't break the floor. Can't break anything in a bowling alley. And that's what I like about bowling alleys. Can't even break the record.
Ordinary People

Thats all i got for now.

Answer 6

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" -
La Pasionaria.

"A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"- Oscar Wilde`s brilliant definition of a cynic.

" you can make a throne from bayonets but you can`t sit on it long" - Boris Yeltsin.

" Tis better to have loved and lost , than never to have loved at all" - Tennyson.

" It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives" - Dr. Samuel Johnson.

" If i have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton.

"Into each life a little rain must fall" - H W Longfellow.

" To err is human, to forgive, divine" - Alexander Pope.

" Give me a lever long enough and i will move the world" - archimedes.

I have so many that i love and admire, i could go on forever. Have fun with your English. *;*

Answer 7

I have several favorite quotes, all about imagination:

“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." -Francis Bacon

"Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun." -George Scialabba

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry -David Thoreau

Answer 8

This isnt really a quote but.....
LIFE IS TOO SHORT
GRUDGES ARE JUST A WASTE OF PERFECT HAPPINESS
LAUGH WHEN YOU CAN
APOLIGIZE WHEN YOU SHOULD
AND LET GO OF WHAT YOU CAN'T CHANGE
LOVE DEEPLY AND FOGIVE QUICKLY
TAKE CHANCES AND GIVE EVERYTHING
AND HAVE NO REGRETS
LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY
YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE GOOD WITH THE BAD
SMILE WHEN YOU ARE SAD
LOVFE WHAT YOU GOT
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAD
ALWAYS FORGIVE BUT NEVER FORGET
LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES
BUT NEVER REGRET
PEOPLE CHANGE
AND THINGS GO WRONG
BUT ALWAYS REMEMBER
LIFE GOES ON!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.-John Swift
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.-Ben Franklin
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.-Von Goethe

Answer 10

You've got some great ones up there... I'll pick my best...

“Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.” - unknown

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