Top 1200 Native Son Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

I'm gonna love my son until the end.

I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.

It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

I wanted to be a good role model for my son.

No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.

You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.

My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.

Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.

My son is the most important thing in my life.

Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture.

My son's dream is to win Wimbledon - I'd love that.

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

Every convert is a son or daughter of God.

God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?

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.

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

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?

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

In Texas, the rangers were established on an ad hoc basis in the 1820s to protect the settlers making inroads into Spanish borderlands. Soon, Mexicans and Mexican Americans replaced Native Americans as the prime target of ranger repression.

It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.

"What's the latest dope on Wall Street?" "My son!"

That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn.

The Son of God had missionary supporters

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

There's no political point worth my son's life.

You sure about this writer thing son?

Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.

I am trying to live as natural as I can with my son.

Son is another guy that I admire a lot.

And I feel just like Jesus' son

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.

I, for certain, don't mind my son doing music.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

I just hugged the man that murdered my son.

For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

I believe in God and his son, Jesus.

I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar.

Could a father not marry his son?

Son of a mustard sandwich, that ends tonight!

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.

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

Tell my father I wish to be his son.

I wish I were as good a man as my son is.

My son is no less than a miracle for me.