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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Coward
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- Nov 07, 2020
An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women know when a man touches them inappropriately. Hugging one man doesn't mean it is an invitation. Wearing nail polish isn't an invitation.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a marked difference between a sexual predator, coercion tactics, and a man hitting on someone with the intention dating/wanting to get to know a girl he likes, however awkward, unpolished it may be.
- Nov 07, 2020