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Top 20 Forrest Carter Quotes (2025 Update)

Forrest Carter Quote: “Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.”

1. “Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin’ in this territory called the Missouri boat ride. -Josey Wales.”

2. “Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin’ in this territory called the Missouri boat ride. -Josey Wales.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “The blue jay playing around the cabin means you are going to have plenty of good times and fun. The blue jay is a clown and bounces on the ends of branches and turns flips and teases other birds.”

3. “The blue jay playing around the cabin means you are going to have plenty of good times and fun. The blue jay is a clown and bounces on the ends of branches and turns flips and teases other birds.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Granma and Granpa wanted me to know of the past, for “If ye don’t know the past, then ye will not have a future. If ye don’t know where your people have been, then ye won’t know where your people are going.”

4. “Granma and Granpa wanted me to know of the past, for “If ye don’t know the past, then ye will not have a future. If ye don’t know where your people have been, then ye won’t know where your people are going.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “You cannot know where your people are going if you don’t know where your people have been.”

5. “You cannot know where your people are going if you don’t know where your people have been.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “It is good that a man’s enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”

6. “It is good that a man’s enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn’t be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.”

7. “Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn’t be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Granma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right.”

8. “Granma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “They now have sensed him coming The forest and the wood-wind Father mountain makes him welcome with his song. They have no fear of Little Tree They know his heart is kindness And they sing, ‘Little tree is not alone.’ Even.”

9. “They now have sensed him coming The forest and the wood-wind Father mountain makes him welcome with his song. They have no fear of Little Tree They know his heart is kindness And they sing, ‘Little tree is not alone.’ Even.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “I felt total bad about it, and empty. Granpa said he knew how I felt, for he was feeling the same way. But Granpa said everything you lost which you had loved give you that feeling. He said the only way round it was not to love anything, which was worse because you would feel empty all the time.”

10. “I felt total bad about it, and empty. Granpa said he knew how I felt, for he was feeling the same way. But Granpa said everything you lost which you had loved give you that feeling. He said the only way round it was not to love anything, which was worse because you would feel empty all the time.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “I knew I was Little Tree, and I was happy that they loved me and wanted me. And so I slept, and I did not cry.”

11. “I knew I was Little Tree, and I was happy that they loved me and wanted me. And so I slept, and I did not cry.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “It is The Way,” he said softly. “Take only what ye need. When ye take the deer, do not take the best. Take the smaller and the slower and then the deer will grow stronger and always give you meat. Pa-koh, the panther, knows and so must ye.” And.”

12. “It is The Way,” he said softly. “Take only what ye need. When ye take the deer, do not take the best. Take the smaller and the slower and then the deer will grow stronger and always give you meat. Pa-koh, the panther, knows and so must ye.” And.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Indian believes they ain’t but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.”

13. “Indian believes they ain’t but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “He loves deep... hates hard, ever’thing’s that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.”

14. “He loves deep... hates hard, ever’thing’s that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “When ye hear somebody using words agin’ somebody, don’t go by his words, fer they won’t make no damn sense. Go by his tone, and ye’ll know if he’s mean and lying.” Granpa was pretty much down on having.”

15. “When ye hear somebody using words agin’ somebody, don’t go by his words, fer they won’t make no damn sense. Go by his tone, and ye’ll know if he’s mean and lying.” Granpa was pretty much down on having.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “And as the Cherokee walked farther from his mountains, he began to die.”

16. “And as the Cherokee walked farther from his mountains, he began to die.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Granpa always said that if you was spoken to, treat such with proper respect and give full attention to what was being said.”

17. “Granpa always said that if you was spoken to, treat such with proper respect and give full attention to what was being said.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Fall is nature’s grace time; giving you a chance to put things in order, for the dying.”

18. “Fall is nature’s grace time; giving you a chance to put things in order, for the dying.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “The Indian never fishes or hunts for sport, only for food. Granpa said it was the silliest damn thing in the world to go around killing something for sport. He said the whole thing, more than likely, was thought up by politicians between wars when they wasn’t gittin’ people killed so they could keep their hand in on killing. Granpa said that idjits taken it up without a lick of thinking at it, but if you could check it out – politicians started it. Which is likely. We.”

19. “The Indian never fishes or hunts for sport, only for food. Granpa said it was the silliest damn thing in the world to go around killing something for sport. He said the whole thing, more than likely, was thought up by politicians between wars when they wasn’t gittin’ people killed so they could keep their hand in on killing. Granpa said that idjits taken it up without a lick of thinking at it, but if you could check it out – politicians started it. Which is likely. We.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Granpa said he seen that and so he knowed. Granpa said ye had to understand. But most people didn’t want to-it was too much trouble-so they used words to cover their own laziness and called other folks “shiftless”.”

20. “Granpa said he seen that and so he knowed. Granpa said ye had to understand. But most people didn’t want to-it was too much trouble-so they used words to cover their own laziness and called other folks “shiftless”.”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Whupped ’em agin, didn’t we, Josey?”

21. “Whupped ’em agin, didn’t we, Josey?”

— Forrest Carter

Forrest Carter Quote: “Granpa said if you showed a feller how to do, it was a lot better than giving him something. He said if you learnt a man to make for hisself, then he would be all right; but if you just give him something and didn’t learn him anything, then you would be continually giving to the man the rest of your natural life. Granpa.”

22. “Granpa said if you showed a feller how to do, it was a lot better than giving him something. He said if you learnt a man to make for hisself, then he would be all right; but if you just give him something and didn’t learn him anything, then you would be continually giving to the man the rest of your natural life. Granpa.”

— Forrest Carter

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