Top 1200 Native Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971) was excavating tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara, one of the oldest cities in the land. There Professor Emery discovered men with blond hair and fair complexions. These individuals were revered and honored by the Egyptians as specially endowed elite.

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

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

Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is "unexplored land," to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.

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

Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

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

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

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

What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'

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

Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place

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

Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must address inequities facing Native Americans.

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

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

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

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

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

You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.

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

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

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

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

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.

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

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

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

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

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

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.

As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.

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

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

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

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.

It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.

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

I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.

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

Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!

America is a country of comparatively recent immigrants, so I'm part of a line there and the old Americans were thrown off their land by the new Americans, and now the new Americans are being thrown off their land by the corporations.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could own land, and only men who owned land could vote.

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

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

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

When I take my free-kicks, I think in Portuguese, and at most, I'll do the celebrating in my native tongue.

My native place is Belgaum and I understand Kannada and have a flavor for acting in South Indian languages.

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

It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'