Dennis Banks Quotes

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.

The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death

To be invited to the Park - the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world - is a great honor, and I don't take it lightly.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

But few prize honour more than money.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

I am honored that they would include me in the Cabinet as a member and contributor.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

My personal belief is we should not bow to any object. But Islam was aware of this human weakness and fulfilled that need through Haj to kiss a stone. A stone is a stone but the vacuum was filled and it became the holiest object. I have performed Haj and seen the devotion of people braving stampedes only to kiss that stone.