Native Quotes · Page 5

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

— Black Elk

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

— Nicole Holofcener

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

— Toni Morrison

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

— Howard Rheingold

As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.

— Michael Horse

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

— Mark Twain

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

— Marcus Aurelius

When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person,…

— Howard W. French

There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them…

— Hans Rosling

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and…

— Crazy Horse

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

— Aristotle

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

— Eric Hoffer

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one…

— Lord Byron

Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas…

— Tim Murphy

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

— Gloria Steinem

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a…

— Alice Walker

We did two films [Kung Fu Panda], because the first two films were so embraced by the Chinese audiences we wanted to…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to…

— Robert T. Bakker

What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the…

— Winston Churchill

I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group…

— Soledad O'Brien

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic…

— Sherman Alexie

The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting…

— Wooden Leg

There's a lot of figures in history that are Native that had a really broad cultural impact; our communities raised some really…

— Lily Gladstone

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself…

— Herman Wouk

“Foreignness is intrinsically stimulating. Like a good game of bridge, the condition of being foreign engages the mind constantly without ever tiring…

— Being foreign: The others-the Economist

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place…

— John Muir

I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no…

— Frank Fools Crow

When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they…

— Mary Pipher

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry…

— Frank Nugent

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we…

— U Thant

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

— Sophocles

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

— John Adams

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

— Thomas Haden Church

“The path is smooth, why do we throw rocks before us.”

— Native Teachings

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

— James Russell Lowell

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

— Will Rogers

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

— Jared Polis

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere