Memorable Funny American Indian Quotes

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"I think the greatest thing that could happen to anyone in the world would be to have an Indian name, like 'He Who Shakes the Buddhas', or 'The One Who Never Stops Talking'."
Will Rogers
"If you see a man in a canoe, don’t point and laugh. Just wave and wish him luck. He might be wearing his birthday suit."
Howard L. Koller
"The only way to get a little Indian in you is to marry one."
Buffy Sainte-Marie
"When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us."
Arapaho Proverb
"A very wise man once said, 'You can't have everything. Where would you put it?'"
George Carlin
"The wind is my father, the sun is my mother, and the earth is my life."
Navajo Proverb
"I'm looking for a guy who’s a lot like a chicken. He should be smart, good-looking, and always be on the move."
Native American Saying
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"It’s better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"The Indian is not a savage; the savage is not an Indian."
J. A. Burroughs
"When a man moves away from nature, his heart becomes hard."
Lakota Proverb
"Don't be afraid to be the first to make a move. Just be prepared to catch a lot of arrows."
Sioux Proverb
"Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get what you need. At least that’s what my wife says."
Native American Saying
"You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him."
Booker T. Washington
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
Cherokee Proverb
"They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind."
Tuscarora Proverb
"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know."
Lao Tzu
"Put your ear to the ground and listen to the earth. It tells you everything."
Native American Saying
"If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
Dalai Lama
"Every man is a child of the earth."
Native American Proverb
"A man wasn’t born to be defeated. He can be destroyed but never defeated."
Native American Proverb
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, instead of saying the things you think people want to hear."
Native American Proverb
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"The creators of the world cannot be removed from it."
Richard Wagamese
"If the world was a giant pie, I'd want a piece and a drink."
Native American Saying
"Don't let your worries get the best of you; remember, even Moses was a basket case."
Native American Saying
"Some people are like a slinky. Not really good for anything, but you can't help but smile when they fall down the stairs."
Unknown
"We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons."
Sharon Stone
"I think that we’re all in positions of leadership, whether we realize it or not."
Wilma Mankiller
"When you have a song in your heart, you just have to share it."
Buffy Sainte-Marie
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"I learned that I could enjoy life without needing a lot of money or things."
Annie Mae Pictou Aquash
"As long as the grass shall grow and the rivers run, the land and the people will never part."
Chief Seattle
"Your real self is the one that watches your behavior."
Wilma Mankiller
"I have learned that we have to be honest with each other, and we cannot ignore the truth."
Hilda Manuel
"We're not just the survivors of this world; we are the caretakers of this world."
Jessica Metcalfe
"If you have a bare tree, you can paint it in any color you want."
Francesca Lia Block
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"The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth."
Chief Seattle
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Jane Goodall
"I think of it as a miracle when I can help someone feel better, even if it’s just a little bit."
Nikki Giovanni
"If we don’t find a way to have humor in our communities, we will burn out."
Tom Goldtooth
"To be a mother, it’s still just the same as it has been for thousands of years."
Linda Hogan
"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew."
Pocahontas
"I’m a storyteller; that’s what I do."
Joy Harjo
"Laughter is medicine for the soul."
Unknown
"It’s better to have a wolf at the door than a shaman in your head."
David H. Lawrence
"Behind every great man is a great woman rolling her eyes."
Jim Carrey
"Seriousness is a disease."
John Dos Passos
"I appreciate the humor and the lightheartedness of life."
David Archuleta
"You can’t be afraid to do what you love; that’s how you get better at it."
Ryan Reynolds
"I always thought that the best part of aging was not giving a damn."
Matilda McElroy
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't."
Mark Twain
"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."
Native American Proverb
"If you talk to the animals, they will talk back to you; if you do not talk to them, you will not hear their answer."
Native American Proverb
"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."
Native American Proverb
"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave."
Dakota Proverb
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Will Rogers
"What the Indians have done to the white man is nothing compared to what the white man has done to the Indian."
Minnesota Native American Proverb
"A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning."
Kenyan Proverb
"They are not all the same – some are wise, some are foolish, some are playful."
Cherokee Proverb
"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last river poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money."
Cree Proverb
"Take only pictures, leave only footprints."
Native American Proverb
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is better to have no opinion than to have an opinion in the wrong direction."
Navajo Proverb
"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."
Confucius
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Dalai Lama
"A good man knows his limitations, but a wise man knows his strengths."
Native American Proverb
"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."
Steve Jobs
"I've never seen a deer yet that had a head on a plaque that was running around."
Gary Larson
"You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream, and that’s kind of the same thing."
Anonymous
"Indians are like trees. Some grow tall, some grow short, some are different colors, but all share the same roots."
Unknown
"Like a tree, we can blow in the wind but still stay rooted."
Anonymous
"If you listen to the wind, you can hear the whispers of our ancestors."
Native American Proverb
"To be a warrior is not a simple thing. It does not mean a desire to fight. It is a life long commitment to work."
Native American Proverb
"Sometimes the best way to talk is to listen."
Native American Proverb
"You can’t make everyone happy; you’re not pizza."
Anonymous
"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
Bible
"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
J.K. Rowling
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
Ram Dass
"When a man is at peace with his conscience, he is a man at peace."
Deloria Beautiful Rainbow
"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to be very, very simple."
Josh Rose
"We’re all human beings and we all have these things we go through, and when we can laugh together, it connects us in a way."
Maria Tallchief
"It’s a great life if you don’t weaken."
John G. Neihardt
"The more we do, the more we can do."
Unknown
"A good way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Mark Twain
"To laugh at yourself is to love yourself."
Joan Rivers
"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace."
Dalai Lama
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
"If I had a dollar for every time I said something funny, I'd have a dollar."
My grandma
"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."
Mark Twain
"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
Jimmy Dean
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Confucius
"I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right."
Unknown
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
Will Rogers
"You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. But it helps."
Unknown
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
Benjamin Franklin
"We all have errors, but those errors can only teach us if we pay attention."
Unknown
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"I know what I lost. I know what you lost. I don’t want to lose that."
Michael K. Williams
"A good Indian is a dead Indian."
Miscellaneous American Indian Sayings
"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."
Betty Williams
"We can’t eat money, and we can’t drink oil."
Winona LaDuke
"There is no deadlier weapon than the man who knows he is right."
Earl O. L. Black
"You can’t make your parents go away. You can’t make them go away any faster than you could make them come here."
Harold Cardinal
"Don't worry, they don't bite unless you tell them to."
Unknown
"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money."
Cree Proverb
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde
"If the earth is sick, we are sick. If the land is dying, we are dying."
N. Scott Momaday
"Better to have a handful of grass than an empty wasteland."
Native American Saying
"If you want to see what the people will think, you must not think too much yourself."
Ben Okri
"Only the Great Spirit, the Creator knows what’s in the soul of a man."
Sitting Bull
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau
"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."
Rumi
"The Creator made all things, but He did not make every man the same."
Abenaki Proverb
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man's mind is not a coffin to put ideas in, but a shell to be cracked open."
M. N. Rao
"I never get lost, but sometimes I get confused."
Ernest Thompson Seton
"A hungry stomach cannot hear."
Native American Proverb
"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears."
Native American Proverb
"If you speak, you are forgotten. If you write, you will remain."
Unknown
"When you have a good enemy, no body can call you a coward."
Finnish Proverb
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat."
Lily Tomlin
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- and maybe bears."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In life, the only way to get ahead is to keep your head up."
Unknown
"Happiness is a warm puppy."
Charles M. Schulz
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