Top 1200 Native Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
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.
The story of our Commonwealth cannot be told without the history and experiences of Virginia's Native tribes.
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.
You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
My father when I was a kid was so deeply involved with Native Americans, he used to bring home these extraordinary headdresses and pipes.
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.
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.
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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.
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.
At the restaurant we cook with a respect to the native culture of Australia whilst still respecting and embracing settlement.
The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.
Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.
The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
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.
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.
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.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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.
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital.
It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.
The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."
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.
There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.
The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.
It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.
I'm interested only in buying land in my native Hawaii so that one day I can live there and have the space to rescue animals.
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."
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.
My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
I don't think anyone is going to say great things about being a native developer on Android.
The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.
During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.
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.
