Indian Language

Famous quotes containing the words indian and/or language:

“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)