Native Quotes · Page 30

It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to…

— Geronimo

It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if…

— Griffith John

I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my…

— Min Kao

When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland…

— Joe Posnanski

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was…

— Marc Forgione

One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you…

— Chief Dan George

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then…

— Ann Patchett

Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you…

— Jeremy Keith

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is…

— Thomas Jefferson

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last…

— Jacob Bronowski

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.…

— Black Elk

It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native…

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— Jesse Jackson

Think of the undying glory that hangs around the ancient name of Africa and forget not that you are native-born American citizens,…

— Henry Highland Garnet

The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.…

— Jacques Roumain

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 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 think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten:…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name…

— Ambrose Bierce

I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for…

— John Battelle

We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken…

— Barack Obama

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

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles…

— Joe Baca

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that…

— Dennis Banks

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the…

— William James

My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they…

— Gene Simmons

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental…

— Stewart Udall

It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many…

— Rick Doblin

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands,…

— David Suzuki

God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed…

— Anonymous

How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into…

— Henry David Thoreau

One has to understand China correctly. Our management there consists of native Chinese, we produce locally and our suppliers also come from…

— Tulsi Tanti

What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins…

— Peter Ackroyd

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village;…

— Anonymous

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do…

— Chief Seattle