Home / Quotes / Quote by Chief Seattle

Quote by Chief Seattle

“Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!”

Author

Chief Seattle, born in 1780 and died on June 7, 1866, was a historical figure of an unknown profession. Limited information is available about his life, achievements, and impact. more

“You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!”

People Thinking May Enough Problem Care Action Judging Please Standards Focused Spending Complaining Enough Time

Author:Kris Carr

“This is a—a proposal of marriage?” he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth, something I had never seen before. “I suppose so,” I said, blushing again. “And, as you see, I’m doing it properly, on my knees.” “This would, however, be a partnership of equals you’re offering, I imagine?” “Undoubtedly.” (448-49)”

Said Imagine Mouths Corners Knees Offering Partnership Smallest Proposal Blushing

Book:Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

Source: Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

“When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.”

Thinking Heart Kind Persons Made Moving Used Night Born Mystery Hollywood Sells Holes Bunch Producers Glorious Laughed Dishes Tickets Thinking Love

Author:Stephen King

“I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.”

People Thinking Doe Soul Joy Hate Literature Sorrow Conversation Importance I Hate My Soul Relate Bores Seriousness Joys And Sorrows

Author:Franz Kafka

“Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.”

Men Mind May Use Action Young Life Is Teach Conscious Hundred Died Breaths Senses Length Faculty Buried Life Death

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.”

Ifs Made Terrible Weak

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.”

Ideas Wanted Rooms Honor Glory Chosen Free Will Envied Glory And Honor

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Quote by Chief Seattle

Author

You May Also Like