Quotes about Native

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. Votes: 6

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. Votes: 4

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. Votes: 4

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants. Votes: 4

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy. Votes: 4

I'm a Native American actress. Votes: 3

I'm proud of my Native American heritage, Votes: 3

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem. Votes: 3

I have built my world through Native American mythology. Votes: 3

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders. Votes: 3

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. Votes: 3

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress. Votes: 3

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. Votes: 3

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. Votes: 3

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society. Votes: 3

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. Votes: 3

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. Votes: 3

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood. Votes: 3

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. Votes: 3

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them. Votes: 3

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. Votes: 3

The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry. Votes: 3

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America. Votes: 3

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. Votes: 3

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. Votes: 3

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything. Votes: 3

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. Votes: 3

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. Votes: 3

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool. Votes: 3

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans. Votes: 3

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us Votes: 3

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West. Votes: 3

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born, Votes: 3

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community. Votes: 3

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. Votes: 3

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered. Votes: 3

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. Votes: 3

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. Votes: 3

In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys). Votes: 3

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea. Votes: 3

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. Votes: 3

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving. Votes: 3

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history. Votes: 3

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. Votes: 3

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history Votes: 3

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy. Votes: 3

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. Votes: 3

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. Votes: 3

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. Votes: 3

We're not Indians and we're not Native Americans. We're older than both concepts. We're the people, we're the human beings. Votes: 3

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son". Votes: 3

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. Votes: 3

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it? Votes: 3

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. Votes: 3

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic." Votes: 3

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. Votes: 3

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. Votes: 3

The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many. Votes: 3

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. Votes: 3

I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness. Votes: 3

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left. Votes: 3

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. Votes: 3

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives. Votes: 3

All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants. Votes: 3

They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million. Votes: 3

In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe. Votes: 3

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. Votes: 3

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. Votes: 3

At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace. Votes: 3

Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically. Votes: 3

Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina, Votes: 3

[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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state. Votes: 3

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave. Votes: 3

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. Votes: 3

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans. Votes: 3

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. Votes: 3

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. Votes: 3

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices... Votes: 3

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package. Votes: 3

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it. Votes: 3

Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would? Votes: 3

For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont. Votes: 3

The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle. Votes: 3

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 naive, I feel! Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest. Votes: 3

One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. Votes: 3

Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable. Votes: 3

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films. Votes: 3

I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans. Votes: 3

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do. Votes: 3

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. Votes: 3

I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people. Votes: 3

I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. Votes: 3

Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible. Votes: 3

Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: ""˜Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don't know. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that. I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. All I had was my originality. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies. Votes: 3

I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go. Votes: 3

Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone. Votes: 3

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown. Votes: 3

The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused. Votes: 3

I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it? Votes: 3

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think. Votes: 3

Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't mean individuals with flesh and blood like Native Americans who weren't persons, they don't have any rights. Votes: 3

Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler. Votes: 3

For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom. Votes: 3

As Native Americans, we believe the Rainbow is a sign from the Spirit in all things. It is a sign of the union of all people, like one big family. The unity of all humanity, many tribes and peoples, is essential. Votes: 3

I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth. Votes: 3

As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation they had a Day Without Immigrants, is what they call it. Or, as Native Americans call it, the good ol' days. Votes: 3

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why. Votes: 3

I can speak Esperanto like a native. Votes: 2

Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony. Votes: 2

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. Votes: 2

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. Votes: 2

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. Votes: 2

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. Votes: 2

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. Votes: 2

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. Votes: 2

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. Votes: 2

We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow! Votes: 2

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. Votes: 2

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. Votes: 2

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World. Votes: 2

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land. Votes: 2

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. Votes: 2

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds. Votes: 2

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. Votes: 2

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. Votes: 2

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. Votes: 2

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. Votes: 2

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Votes: 2

Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England. Votes: 2

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. Votes: 2

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker. Votes: 2

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights. Votes: 2

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours... Votes: 2

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. Votes: 2

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. Votes: 2

I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today. Votes: 2

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. Votes: 2

On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building. Votes: 2

We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees. Votes: 2

Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community. Votes: 2

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.... Votes: 2

This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land. Votes: 2

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. Votes: 2

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. Votes: 2

A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. Votes: 2

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. Votes: 2

Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider. Votes: 2

One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself. Votes: 2

My native land, good night! Votes: 0

Facts are God's native tongue. Votes: 0

Of course, western is my native music, Votes: 0

I'm a true native of the Bay Area. Votes: 0

His native home deep imag'd in his soul. Votes: 0

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. Votes: 0

Dreams are our only geography—our native land. Votes: 0

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology, Votes: 0

One's native land!?there should one live! there die! Votes: 0

The working people are bound to their native shores. Votes: 0

One's native land! There should one live! There die! Votes: 0

The head is not more native to the heart. Votes: 0

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. Votes: 0

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs. Votes: 0

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre. Votes: 0

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. Votes: 0

I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy. Votes: 0

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. Votes: 0

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.... Votes: 0

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air. Votes: 0

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans. Votes: 0

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. Votes: 0

A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy. Votes: 0

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Votes: 0

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Votes: 0

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. Votes: 0

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man Votes: 0

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception. Votes: 0

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it. Votes: 0

There is no place in this world warmer than our native land. Votes: 0

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing. Votes: 0

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. Votes: 0

Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves. Votes: 0

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. Votes: 0

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. Votes: 0

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there. Votes: 0

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. Votes: 0

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers? Votes: 0

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle. Votes: 0

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold Votes: 0

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. Votes: 0

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here. Votes: 0

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. Votes: 0

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. Votes: 0

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land. Votes: 0

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. Votes: 0

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. Votes: 0

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. Votes: 0

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. Votes: 0

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing. Votes: 0

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land. Votes: 0

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' Votes: 0

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. Votes: 0

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family. Votes: 0

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan. Votes: 0

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american. Votes: 0

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. Votes: 0

And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth. Votes: 0

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. Votes: 0

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? Votes: 0

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. Votes: 0

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. Votes: 0

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. Votes: 0

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent Votes: 0

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Votes: 0

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is. Votes: 0

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. Votes: 0

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week. Votes: 0

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. Votes: 0

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. Votes: 0

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time. Votes: 0

Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted. Votes: 0

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory. Votes: 0

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary. Votes: 0

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land! Votes: 0

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. Votes: 0

Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands. Votes: 0

To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals." Votes: 0

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake. Votes: 0

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. Votes: 0

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. Votes: 0

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population. Votes: 0

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men. Votes: 0

The problem is, we're all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories. Votes: 0

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh. Votes: 0

I have heard that in the New Zealand native tradition, the soul, when it dies, becomes a star. Votes: 0

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. Votes: 0

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. Votes: 0

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital. Votes: 0

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital. Votes: 0

Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe. Votes: 0

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. Votes: 0

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil. Votes: 0

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves. Votes: 0

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. Votes: 0

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed. Votes: 0

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. Votes: 0

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent. Votes: 0

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today. Votes: 0

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. Votes: 0

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground. Votes: 0

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache. Votes: 0

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it. Votes: 0

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country. Votes: 0

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. Votes: 0

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. Votes: 0

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Votes: 0

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there. Votes: 0

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. Votes: 0

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. Votes: 0

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. Votes: 0

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. Votes: 0

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. Votes: 0

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. Votes: 0

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus. Votes: 0

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. Votes: 0

Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze! Votes: 0

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. Votes: 0

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. Votes: 0

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it. Votes: 0

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. Votes: 0

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. Votes: 0

Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos. Votes: 0

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. Votes: 0

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay. Votes: 0

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one. Votes: 0

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. Votes: 0

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes. Votes: 0

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head." Votes: 0

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes. Votes: 0

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world. Votes: 0

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. Votes: 0

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night! Votes: 0

When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch. Votes: 0

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic. Votes: 0

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out. Votes: 0

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked. Votes: 0

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. Votes: 0

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system. Votes: 0

Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg. Votes: 0

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land Votes: 0

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard. Votes: 0

We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We've just been to the last stop of this bus. Votes: 0

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded. Votes: 0

In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety. Votes: 0

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries. Votes: 0

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers. Votes: 0

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 . Votes: 0

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. Votes: 0

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings. Votes: 0

For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe. Votes: 0

The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard. Votes: 0

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine. Votes: 0

It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant. Votes: 0

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought Votes: 0

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. Votes: 0

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home. Votes: 0

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state. Votes: 0

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not. Votes: 0

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity. Votes: 0

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy. Votes: 0

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact. Votes: 0

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted. Votes: 0

There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others. Votes: 0

Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos. Votes: 0

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship. Votes: 0

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America. Votes: 0

We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures. Votes: 0

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. Votes: 0

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance. Votes: 0

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect Votes: 0

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed. Votes: 0

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. Votes: 0

Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language. Votes: 0

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values. Votes: 0

I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.This is the tradition of native women. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic Votes: 0

It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence. Votes: 0

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[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... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. Votes: 0

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land. Votes: 0

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity. Votes: 0

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! Votes: 0

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before. Votes: 0

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. Votes: 0

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids. Votes: 0

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Votes: 0

Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance. Votes: 0

I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history. Votes: 0

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.] Votes: 0

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery. Votes: 0

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American. Votes: 0

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action. Votes: 0

One has to understand China correctly. Our management there consists of native Chinese, we produce locally and our suppliers also come from China. In this way, we too can also enjoy the cost advantages. Votes: 0

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action." Votes: 0

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain. Votes: 0

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. Votes: 0

... but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them. Votes: 0

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. Votes: 0

On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites. Votes: 0

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances. Votes: 0

Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5. Votes: 0

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out. Votes: 0

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing. Votes: 0

Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness Votes: 0

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. Votes: 0

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat. Votes: 0