Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never… — Aristophanes
Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing… — Jeremy Keith
Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or… — John Milton
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an… — Madame de Stael
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with… — Henry David Thoreau
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree,… — Diego Rivera
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population. — Paul Scott
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human… — Rex Harrison
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him… — Thomas Jefferson
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen
One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad… — Robert T. Bakker
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a… — William Hazlitt
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist,… — Jesse Jackson
I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one. — Sandra Bernhard
[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I canâ€™t imagine a passionate affair with a native man — Lena Dunham
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people. — Napoleon Hill
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of… — Wilma Mankiller

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