Native Quotes
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.
The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.
The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.
Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.
I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.
The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.
My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.
From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.
In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?
The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment.
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.
I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.
People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.
Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.
An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.
On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.
When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.