Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.
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Related shed rivers of blood in our land, we exploded volcanoes of anger in your land. AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There will always be people who will accept you for what you are! SAKURA TSUKUBA Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. PERICLES I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea... ALAN BENNETT The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr... JOSEPH CONRAD This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are... RICHARD ALLEN Should we call her?Maybe we should give her a RING to see where she is? Get it? Get it? -... CHRIS COLFER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,Let u... IRVING BERLIN Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. MARK STRAND He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We h... QURAN We must protect them (animals) and this land. If the animals die, this land dies. If this land dies,... DIANE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We rememb... JOHN WOODEN Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes ... CHRIS COLFER But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn'... CHRIS COLFER What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect... JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,”... JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will gran... JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma... JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�... JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you... JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ... JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (... JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima JOHN GREEN But it's your life. JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace. JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ... JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries.. JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu... JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are... RICHARD ALLEN This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are... RICHARD V. ALLEN We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor... DENIS KEARNEY I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ... N. SCOTT MOMADAY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monum... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH This is not a debate about immigrant rights. America being a land of immigrants will never, ever tak... BILL MONTGOMERY Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a searc... CARL SANDBURG We're going to send to the Senate not only the first lady of the land, but she will be the first lad... PATRICK MOYNIHAN The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere.... PETER BERGEN The Supreme Lord God has unleashed the rain clouds. Over the sea and over the land - over all the ea... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB There are 30,000 families whose land has been lost to the sea. And with the best will in the world d... DOUGLAS KEATINGE We lived on our land as long as we can remember. The land was owned by our tribe as far back as memo... STANDING BEAR Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not? SAKURA TSUKUBA Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land ... ANONYMOUS The rediscovery of this bird is not only a great boost for Arkansas, but for our entire nation, beca... JO GOY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action... JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou... JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted... JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu... JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying... JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up. AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blosso... THEODOR HERZL But the issue has to do with land, which is our land. BASHAR AL-ASSAD All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land. JACK KEROUAC "To protect the home of the brave and the land of the free, brave men and women of our armed forces ... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stall stand
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... FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Living in your genome is the history of our species. BARRY SCHULER There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imm... SARAH JOSEPHA HALE The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS The secret of our success is that we never, never give up. WILMA MANKILLER I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our
martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Th... REV. E.J. YOUNG Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition... DAVID MAHONEY While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,... IRVING BERLIN The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land. WASHINGTON IRVING The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We live on 18 acres near Stone Mountain, and she's the mother of everything on our land. If the cats... BILL HUNT Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ... JOHN GREEN They wanted the land worse than I wanted it. Times are changing. This is not the same Indian Land it... CHARLES WHITESIDES This is a land of soul, this is a land of commitment, and this is our place, ... Lets never forget t... ADRIENNE CLARKSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Oh, absolutely, ... because, you know, the Bible teaches that God made land animals on day six, alon... KEN HAM Happiness is obtained, and sorrow runs far away, when the Saints chant the Lord's Name. The sea, the... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece. WILLIE HAYNES She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO
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