N. Scott Momaday Quotes

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

N. Scott Momaday

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• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Important
  • Parent
  • Survival

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Fight
  • Self
  • Survival

• Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Survival

• I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Question
  • Survival
  • How

• What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Real
  • Struggle

• From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Survival

• In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • History
  • Survival

• Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Free

• Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankind’s moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to one’s survival and vice versa.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Value
  • Environment
  • Moral

• As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • World
  • Scary
  • Survival

• Most of the oxygen we breathe is made by ocean plankton. And when animals left the seas in which life arose, they took seawater with them, in their bodies - an internal environment crucial for cellular survival. We are, in a sense, soft vessels of seawater.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Ocean

• The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

  

  Bill Frist
  • World
  • Hope
  • Success

• As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

  

  Linda Vester
  • Survival

• My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Survival

• A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

  

  Burt Rutan
  • People
  • Space
  • Study

• Genius sees the answer before the question.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Question
  • Genius
  • Answer

• The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Universe
  • Souls
  • Articles

• The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Book
  • Together

• The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • War
  • Action
  • Military

• For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Survival