Top 1200 Native Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

My native land, good night!

None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native.

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man

What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

My music is more native than intricate or technical.

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

There is no place in this world warmer than our native land.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

Of course, western is my native music.

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.

I am a native of Hollis, Queens, N.Y.

There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life...We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.

A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.

I'm a Native American actress.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

Facts are God’s native tongue.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

One's native land! There should one live! There die!

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn from doing ritual and taking ayahuasca [a common tropical forest hallucinogen] is the key to understanding the native consciousness and perception of the world with the Peruvian shamans that you wouldn't get unless you had been with them, but every shamanic tradition, including the Native American tradition of medicine and cleansing ritual, like the Sun Dance or the sweat lodge.

The head is not more native to the heart.

Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.

The working people are bound to their native shores.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.