Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover… — Victor Cousin
She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese,… — Jodi Picoult
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a… — Lewis Mumford
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. — Euripides
I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre. — Cyril Cusack
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet,… — Bernd Heinrich
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the… — Richard Louv
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood… — Lukas Foss
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America… — Carlos Bulosan
There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology, — danah boyd
What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only… — James Sheridan Knowles
In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys). — Daniel Brook
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are… — Dennis Banks
In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe. — Tatanka
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in… — John Milton
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. — John Dryden
If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North… — Samuel Eliot Morison

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