Forrest Carter quotes

“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
-- Forrest Carter

#People Quotes

“Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.”
-- Forrest Carter

#Grandma Quotes #Way Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.”
-- Forrest Carter

Source : Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns”, p.125, UNM Press

#Hate Quotes #Warrior Quotes #Men Quotes

“Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.”
-- Forrest Carter

Source : Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns”, p.120, UNM Press

#Believe Quotes #Two Quotes #Coward Quotes

“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”
-- Forrest Carter

Source : Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns : Gone to Texas; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales”, p.64, UNM Press

#Men Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Want Quotes

“Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.”
-- Forrest Carter

Source : Forrest Carter (2001). “The Education of Little Tree”, p.101, UNM Press

#Stronger Quotes #Growing Quotes #Hundred Quotes

“Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.”
-- Forrest Carter

Source : Forrest Carter (2001). “The Education of Little Tree”, p.37, UNM Press

#Purpose Quotes #World Quotes #Fool Quotes

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”