The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. — Calamity Jane Copy Share Image
A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy. — Albert H. Morehead Copy Share Image
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow! — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital. — Daniel Snyder Copy Share Image
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“It is no nation that we inhabit, but a language. Make no mistake; our native toungue is our true fatherland.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
Native American isn't blood. It is what is in the heart. The love for the land, the respect for it, those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and native born women who work in the… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
When you're a second- or third-generation migrant, your ties to your heritage can feel a little precarious. You're a foreigner here, you're… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Allah God has come to fight the battle of justice for the Black man and woman of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born, — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? — John Milton Copy Share Image
“For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population.” — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image