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I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
— N. Scott Momaday
It took six days from start to finish for the totality of Creation; but within three days He cut His schedule in half to save you.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.
— Evan Esar
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
— N. Scott Momaday
In today's media environment, invisibility is a fate much worse than failure for any business large or small.
— Peg Samuel
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
— N. Scott Momaday
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
— N. Scott Momaday
My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.
— Jenny Slate
Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...
— M. Scott Momaday
The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.
— Gerhard Schroder
Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.
— Frederick William Faber
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
— N. Scott Momaday
He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember.
— N. Scott Momaday
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
— N. Scott Momaday
There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.
— Norbert Bisky
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
— N. Scott Momaday
Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.
— N. Scott Momaday
Loneliness is an aspect of the land.
— N. Scott Momaday
Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.
— N. Scott Momaday
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
— N. Scott Momaday
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.
— N. Scott Momaday
Art is affirmation.
— N. Scott Momaday
He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
— N. Scott Momaday
Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just
— N. Scott Momaday
Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.
— N. Scott Momaday
All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is.
— Daniel Handler
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.
— N. Scott Momaday
The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.
— N. Scott Momaday
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder.
— N. Scott Momaday
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
— N. Scott Momaday
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
— N. Scott Momaday
Memories should console, not enslave.
— A.C. Crispin
If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.
— N. Scott Momaday
If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.
— N. Scott Momaday
Some people think it's a jungle out here. It's not ... It's a fucking zoo! - excerpt from: freefalling
— Darlenne Susan Girard
In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
— N. Scott Momaday