Top 1200 Native Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then, when people were chanting about liberating ancestral land. I was quick to say that regardless of the future of these territories, liberated they are not, because the term liberation only applies to human beings and not to land, not to real estate.

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

Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.

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

At the restaurant we cook with a respect to the native culture of Australia whilst still respecting and embracing settlement.

For far too long, the voices of Native Americans have been woefully underrepresented in Congress.

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

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

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

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

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

But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

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

We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes. ... In Reality Land, we all want to maybe put dinner on the table once in a while, but in Fantasy Land, we are not supposed to be even interested in money because we are so caught up in the emotion of it all. That's an illusion, but people like it and it makes us feel holy or something so we all play along.

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

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.

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

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

If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

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

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

I'm just another non-native whose mom told him we were part-Cherokee.

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

The story of our Commonwealth cannot be told without the history and experiences of Virginia's Native tribes.

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.

If I was a CIA front company, what would I want to be able to do? Well, I would want to be able to land at military airfields as a civilian, so there's got to be some document that the Air Force or the Army has that would list all the civilian aircraft that are cleared to land at military bases.

History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

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

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

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was approved which has to do with the role and the place and the function of the institution of traditional leadership. Now that legislation, not the Communal Land Rights Bill, provides for the setting up of particular committees that would work together with the elected municipalities.

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.

I don't think anyone is going to say great things about being a native developer on Android.

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

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.

Contest skating is about figuring out the hardest tricks you can do that you can also land every time. It doesn't matter if it's a kickflip back lip or a kickflip front board or a hardflip. Any trick you feel really confident in and you can land any time, those are the tricks you bring to the contest.

The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."

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

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

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

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

A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.

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

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.

One of the West's singular migrations - from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley - is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read...

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