Native Quotes

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.

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

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.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

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.

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 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.

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.

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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

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

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