Dances with Wolves Quotes

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John Dunbar: Dunbar, not Dumb Bear.

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Major Fambrough: You wish to see the frontier? John Dunbar: Yes sir, before it's gone.

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[Dunbar has found an old skeleton on the prairie] Timmons: I'll bet someone back east is going, "Now why don't he write?"

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Lt. Elgin: Spivy! You bash that prisoner one more time, I'll put those shackles on YOU!

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Toughest Pawnee: [speaking Pawnee; subtitled] Only a white man would make a fire for everyone to see. Pawnee #1: [in Pawnee] Maybe there's more than one. Pawnee #2: [in Pawnee] There may be three or four. Toughest Pawnee: [in Pawnee] I know three or ...

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Wind In His Hair: [watching Dunbar dance around like a buffalo] His mind is gone!

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John Dunbar: How did you get your name? Stands With a Fist: When I came to live on the prarie, I worked every day... very hard... there was a woman who didn't like me. She called me bad names... sometimes she beat me. One day she was calling me these...

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General Tide: [after Dunbar's suicide attempt at the enemy lines] You rest easy, son. You'll keep your leg, as God is my judge, you'll keep it.

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John Dunbar: Who would do such a thing? The field was proof enough that it was a people without value and without soul, with no regard for Sioux rights. The wagon tracks leading away left little doubt and my heart sank as I knew it could only be whit...

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Smiles A Lot: [after Otter has fallen off his horse during the attempt to steal Cisco] [all in Lakota, subtitled] Smiles A Lot: What happened? Otter: I don't know. My arm won't work. Worm: [riding up] What happened? Smiles A Lot: Otter hurt himself. ...

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Sgt. Bauer: [to Dunbar] Turned injun, didn't yeh?

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[Ten Bears shows Dunbar an old Spanish Conquistador's helmet] Ten Bears: [in Lakota; subtitled] The white men who wore this came around the time of my grandfather's grandfather. Eventually we drove them out. Then the Mexicans came. But they do not co...

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John Dunbar: [voice-over] I had never really known who John Dunbar was. Perhaps because the name itself had no meaning. But as I heard my Sioux name being called over and over, I knew for the first time who I really was.

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John Dunbar: [voice-over] They were a people so eager to laugh, so devoted to family, so dedicated to each other. The only word that comes to mind is harmony.

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John Dunbar: [at the celebration of the buffalo feast, noticing a big Sioux man has his Lieutenant's hat] That's my hat... that's my hat! Big Warrior: [in Lakota, as all becomes quiet in the tent] I found it on the prarie. It's mine. Wind In His Hair...

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Pawnee #1: [speaking Pawnee; subtitled] We have nothing to show for this trail. Pawnee #2: [in Pawnee] We have no rifles. White men are sure to have rifles! Pawnee #3: [in Pawnee] If they don't have rifles, it's hard to say how many might be down the...

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[Repeated line] Timmons: [after they have reached an abandoned fort] There ain't nothing here, lieutenant.

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John Dunbar: Guns would make one warrior like two.

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