Top 1200 Native Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, and confusion all over the earth. One master mind is governing the nations. It is not the president of the United States; it is not Hitler; it is not Mussolini; it is not the king or government of England or any other land; it is Satan himself.

My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.

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

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

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

I stared at the Ohio River every day as a child, a thing that for me is almost more symbol than river. The formation of personality is inextricable from place. It strikes me as an interesting example of dependent co-arising; land shapes the organism, which then reshapes - literally and figuratively - the land. This because of this; not that because not that. Nothing is separate, least of all the literary mind.

My father when I was a kid was so deeply involved with Native Americans, he used to bring home these extraordinary headdresses and pipes.

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

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

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

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

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

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

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

When you look at me, you can't really tell what I am, but I'm black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.

Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his Fatherland as well as Holyland, i.e. the land of the origin of his religion... Consequently the so-called aboriginal or hill tribes also are Hindus: because India is their Fatherland as well as their Holyland of whatever form of religion or worship they follow.

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

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

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.

We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests, or even raw materials that we produce on our land, or even land itself. We see it in terms of what we can exploit rather than the medium in which all of these activities have to take place.

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

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

Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.

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

The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.

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

I have observed Afghani people and their Urdu is not as chaste as it should be and that reflects in the way they speak. Their native language is Pashtun.

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.

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

Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.

Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents are not nearly so accommodating." This was warm and accommodating? That didn't bode well for the next kingdom. I also found it sad that a place called the Mimosa Land was unfriendly. It sounded like a party waiting to happen.

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

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.

My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.

The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new life in America. They wanted to believe that in some sense they had come to a new Eden and that they could leave history behind in Europe. So they convinced themselves that this land had no history, that this was "virgin" land. This made the Indians' presence inconvenient.

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.

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.

There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

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

California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I refuse to be released on the basis of a 'condition for negotiations' and I will not accept the price for my freedom to be several meters of the land of Palestine, the land that we have fought for and been imprisoned for. I refuse to be free on the condition of the expansion of settlements. I refuse this offer, not even a single house for Zionist settlers will be built as the price of my freedom.

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

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

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

I testify to you that God's hand has been in our destiny. I testify that freedom as we know it today is being threatened as never before in our history. I further witness that this land-the Americas-must be protected, its Constitution upheld, for this is a land foreordained to be the Zion of our God. He expects us as members of the Church and bearers of His priesthood to do all we can to preserve our liberty.

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

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

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

Ask people who are close to the natural world: farmers, people who work the land or in some way use the land for their livelihoods. They will tell you what they are seeing isn't so good. They will tell you the changes they have seen in the past twenty years are remarkable in one way or another and unlike anything they had seen before that.

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

We believe Roblox, as well as many other social games, can be experienced across platforms with great native controls.

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

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