Native Quotes · Page 7

Though we have our own native flavour for each state or country, music has no language.

— Devi Sri Prasad

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us

— Dennis Banks

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

— Thomas Carlyle

I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.

— Matt McGorry

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

— Horace

I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say...

— Sitting Bull

“In a world run by the indigenous, no ethnicity is the second race.”

— Abhijit Naskar

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on…

— Mark Twain

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents…

— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If…

— Margaret George

You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she…

— Wovoka

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

— Barack Obama

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might…

— Alice Walker

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested…

— Natasha Trethewey

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us…

— Chief Seattle

I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the…

— Thabo Mbeki

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from…

— Bill Bryson

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when…

— Joseph Bruchac

Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that…

— Billy Collins

I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball…

— Wanda Sykes

With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor…

— John Smith

I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.…

— Black Elk

When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread…

— Victor Cousin

The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a…

— Michael Dorris

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…

— Michael Leunig

Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like…

— Richard Rodriguez

The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,…

— Chief Dan George

Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are…

— Bernd Heinrich

I see myself as a native, a member of the community here in Indy.

— Tyrese Haliburton

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

— Skeet Ulrich

“I think it’s a very brave thing to do. To start a new life in a new country.”

— Liane Moriarty

“I know what it’s like to be different. I’m a Native American in a white world.”

— Tamara Hoffa

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

— Martin Heidegger

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

— Black Elk

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

— Alexander Hamilton

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

— Charles Alexander Eastman