Native Quotes · Page 3

I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.

— Andrea Bocelli

Do the very best you can.

— Dale Carnegie

“Because sarcasm is my native language.”

— Maddy Edwards

Of course, western is my native music,

— Ken Curtis

Life is greater than you have ever known it.

— Ernest Holmes

Native women are unstoppable.

— Lily Gladstone

I'm proud of my Native American heritage,

— Elizabeth Warren

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

— Brigitte Bardot

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

— Kara DioGuardi

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

— J. Frank Dobie

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

— Abraham Cowley

Everyone thinks living abroad is fun... The ideal life. Take it from me - it's tough.

— Shenaz Treasury

“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

— Robert Breault

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

— Stephen Shore

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

— Dennis Banks

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered…

— Lukas Foss

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is…

— John Norman

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends…

— Pablo Sandoval

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art…

— Walter Scott

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like…

— Lady Bird Johnson

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt…

— Robbie Robertson

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find…

— Warren G. Bennis

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in…

— Henry David Thoreau

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility…

— Janine Benyus

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element…

— John Baldacci

I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my…

— Washington Irving

Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to…

— Regina Doman

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist,…

— Jesse Jackson

A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It…

— Sri Aurobindo

There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to…

— Tod Goldberg

Five," she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. "Five?" Gabriel echoed blankly. "My rating," she said,…

— Cassandra Clare

“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way…

— Howard Zinn

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?…

— Tecumseh

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

There are challenges as far as underfunding in various parts of the city. But spirit and sense of community is so much…

— Harvey Levin

In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary,…

— George Soros