Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music,… — Georg Solti
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except… — Terri Windling
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas… — Jared Diamond
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some… — Lisa Bonet
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the… — Tori Amos
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo… — Stephen King
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native… — Henry David Thoreau
Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic… — Jared Diamond
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the… — Ishmael Reed
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions… — Mahatma Gandhi
The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the… — Patricia Briggs
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. — Edith Piaf
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his… — George Stigler
Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his… — Henry David Thoreau
When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,… — Henry David Thoreau

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