“Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity of from strangers, the same combination of pity… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I hope that MMA in Venezuela blows up! But here's the thing, I also want it to blow up in Mexico. I… — Julianna Pena Copy Share Image
One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn't have any idea what… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The most difficult adjustment an expatriate has to make, on returning to his native land, is in this realm of conversation. The… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
My music demands something of the listener, it is demanding music. I think that's a good thing. I'm not chiselling anything in… — Einar Selvik Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
“If the Texans had kept out of my country, there might have been peace. But that which you now say we must… — Ten Bears Comanche Nation Copy Share Image
The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
America inevitably "brings the distant near" because apart from members of the Native Nations, all of us originated in faraway places. Sadly,… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes.… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide'… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native.… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there.… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. — Edith Piaf Copy Share Image
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys). — Daniel Brook Copy Share Image
There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
