Native Quotes · Page 6

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

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

— V. S. Pritchett

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.

— Philip Larkin

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

— John Banville

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

— Frantz Fanon

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

— Rick Renzi

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

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

— John Milton

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I…

— Connie Willis

I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I]…

— Mary Robinson

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…

— Jared Diamond

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed…

— Masaharu Morimoto

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

Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't…

— Allison Joseph

Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from…

— Charles Villiers Stanford

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth…

— Miriam Makeba

I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they…

— Mark Durie

If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the…

— Fred Wilson

I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy.…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really…

— Jim Jarmusch

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

Once you identify and learn to speak your spouse’s primary love language, I believe that you will have discovered the key to…

— Gary Chapman

When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to…

— Eknath Easwaran

Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is…

— Diego Rivera

I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been…

— Michael Scott

American history is not history without Native history.

— Lily Gladstone

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

— John Ross

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

— John Dryden

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

— Yancy Butler

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

— Euripides

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

— Lemn Sissay

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

— Julia Glass

One's native land! There should one live! There die!

— Jules Verne