Indian Quotes

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. … I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

As I am going on the expedition to New Mexico and have reason to fear that I may be annoyed by some individual since I am a mulatto, and as it is proper to protect my rights in such an eventuality by an affidavit showing that I am a free women, unmarried, and the legitimate daughter of Hernando, a negro and an Indian named Magdalena, I therefore request your grace to accept this affidavit, which shows that I am free and not bound by marriage or slavery. I request that a properly certified and signed copy be given to me in order to protect my rights, and that it carry full legal authority. I demand justice.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

We’re [Native Americans] portrayed as either the noble savage or the ignoble savage. In most people’s minds, we only exist in the 19th century.

I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

If I'm playing an Indian in a Hollywood film, I won't do it in any funny Indian accent.

I think the Saree makes a woman look sexy yet graceful all at the same time.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

My husband is an NRI. Well, his name is Ritesh and he is in the U.K.

Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak.

Colonial societies could not become too oppressive, because their members — surrounded by direct examples of free life — always had the option to vote with their feet....Historians have been puzzlingly reluctant to acknowledge this Indian contribution to the end of tyranny worldwide.

As of now, Virat Kohli is the greatest batsman of the world

I love yoga... I also see an Ayurvedic doctor, which is an ancient Indian thing. I go and see the doctor to balance my system twice a year; it's preventative. They take my pulse, give me some herbs, and tell me what I should eat and what I should avoid. They rub oil on me too, it's so lovely. It's like a detox.

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

It will not always be possible to obtain Indian cooperation .... We must proceed even though [this] may be lacking.

It is very important to take a break and feel fresh, which we Indian cricketers don't get much of, so we are not used to it.

I think what's perhaps lacking in Indian body builders is advanced knowledge of the sport. You'd be surprised to know that even the average European isn't really that aware about it either.

This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys."

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

I'm human. As human as any Indian. And every Pakistani is as human as every Indian.