Native Quotes

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

It seemed to me that I had come for the first time close to the soil of my native country, and could feel for the first time running in my veins Russia's vastness, her potency, her strength.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

Life is greater than you have ever known it.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.