Native Quotes

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

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

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know.... Anybody else... well where did you come from?

In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

I'm a Native American actress.

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

My native land, good night!

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

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I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.