Indian Quotes

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services.

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.