Native Quotes

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.

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

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.

My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

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.

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.

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.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

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

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.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

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.

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!

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

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.

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.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.

The working people are bound to their native shores.

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.