Chief Joseph Quotes

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.

Chief Joseph

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: leader
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: March 3, 1840 - September 21, 1904

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I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

Andreja Pejic

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'Bottle Rocket' is an underdog.

Jeff Giles

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One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

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I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.

Steve Alford

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Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Tom Waits

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I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Tom Wolfe

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I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

Rosie Perez

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Doing something with Uniqlo means you come up with a wardrobe which is universal and quirky.

Jonathan Anderson

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I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.

Daya

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I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

Chris Messina

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Look how far the human race has come in terms of air and space travel in the last hundred years. So in the next couple of thousand years, you've got to believe that we're going to be able to do all kinds of amazing things.

Chris Squire

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I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

Peter MacKay

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