Famous quotes containing the words indian, origin and/or settled:
“Sabra Cravat: I should think youd be ashamed of yourself. Mooning around with an Indian hired girl.
Cim Cravat: Ruby isnt an Indian hired girl. Shes the daughter of an Osage chief.
Sabra Cravat: Osage, fiddlesticks.
Cim Cravat: Shes just as important in the Osage nation as, well, as Alice Roosevelt is in Washington.”
—Howard Estabrook (18841978)
“The origin of storms is not in clouds,
our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
spillways free authentic power:
dead John Browns body walking from a tunnel
to break the armored and concluded mind.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (19131980)
“Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”
—Aristotle (384323 B.C.)