Native Quotes

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

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

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

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

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

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

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

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

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

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.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

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

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.