Top 1200 Native Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old.

I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.

I've always considered myself to be Russian: my native language is Russian.

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

Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.

The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its best. Each park contributes to a deeper understanding of the history of the United States and our way of life; of the natural processes which have given form to our land, and to the enrichment of the environment in which we live.

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

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.

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.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

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.

There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

It is a great honor for me to be able to team up with the Jr. NBA to help continue develop basketball talent in my native Dominican Republic.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.

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

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

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

What we do to our native Australians, our own indigenous people, is nothing short of horrific.

"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

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.

Immigrants and Native Americans have made our country what it is today, and if we've learned anything through these hundreds of years - it should be that we can accomplish more when we work together.

Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

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.

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Urban Indian Organizations are a lifeline to Native Americans living in urban areas across California.

Native American activists have been present as long as the Europeans have been working to colonize us.

An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.

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

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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

Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.

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

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.

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer from unacceptable and disproportionately high levels of violence, which can have lasting impacts on families and communities.

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