Native Quotes

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America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its… — Paula Gunn Allen
It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their… — Isak Dinesen
When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.'… — Doris Lessing
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief… — Doris Lessing
"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they… — Gertrude Stein
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. — William Shenstone
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with… — William James
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at… — William James
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the… — Alistair Cooke
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the… — William Shakespeare
We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week. — Groucho Marx
During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are… — Barack Obama
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way… — Warren G. Bennis
His native home deep imag'd in his soul. — Homer
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. — George Bernard Shaw
The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he… — Erik Erikson
It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are… — Linus Pauling
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes

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