#co

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#clan #connection #constitutes #family #head

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#awe #character #elements #fire #forces

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#conscious #created #divinity #erect #god

A smile is the universal welcome. ↗

— Max Eastman

#universal #welcome

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ↗

— Max Eastman

#cherish #consciousness #defining #function

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#consider #days #dump #good #good mother

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life. ↗

— John Eaton

#contemporary #contemporary life #energy #life #need

We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do? ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#client #constantly #great #just #more

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#also #course #expect #issues #make

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#character #child #comes #control #eat