Native Quotes

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.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

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.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.