Quotes by : N. Scott Momaday

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted.....

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

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the....

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and....

I prayed. He was going home, and I wanted to pray. Look out for me, I said; look out each day and listen....

Art is affirmation.

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny....

The people of the town have little need. They do not hanker after progress and have never changed their....

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations....

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