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N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken."

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it."

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.




N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things."

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe."

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.




N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian."

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold."

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition."

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.




N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen."

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival."

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



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred."

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word."

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting."

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.




N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun."

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'"

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God."

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see."

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages."

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America."

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen."

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion."

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal"

My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood"

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "Loneliness is an aspect of the land."

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse."

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.



N. Scott Momaday Quotes: "Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it..."

Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...