Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times… — Humphry Davy
Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each… — Susanna Clarke
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. — Democritus
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies . — Napoleon Hill
Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to… — Hudson Stuck
Life is greater than you have ever known it. — Ernest Holmes
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. — Daniel Kahikina Akaka
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees,… — Thabo Mbeki
The head is not more native to the heart. — William Shakespeare
Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment.… — J. Richard Clarke
Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. — Yancy Butler
The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity. — Bruce Lee
There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got… — Barack Obama
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to… — Robert Duvall
I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things,… — Joanna Noelle Levesque
In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted… — Steven Pinker
It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if he will only… — Griffith John
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. — Dennis Banks
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from… — Jared Diamond
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia,… — Robert MacNeil

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