Native Quotes

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.

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

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

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

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing.

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

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

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

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.