Native Quotes
646 quotes by 477 authors
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I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a…
— Ronnie Dunn
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I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
— Sherman Alexie
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There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and…
— Aldo Leopold
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Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont…
— Lady Bird Johnson
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I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
— Juan Goytisolo
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I'm a Native American actress.
— Julia Jones
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There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
— Julia Jones
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
— Calamity Jane
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When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly…
— Peter Farb
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I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding…
— Chaske Spencer
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I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part…
— Chaske Spencer
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of…
— George Bernard Shaw
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What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you.…
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.
— Wovoka
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The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the…
— Luther Standing Bear
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The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of…
— Chief Dan George
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I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I…
— Black Elk
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One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to…
— Chief Dan George
Who Wrote These Native Quotes
477 authors contributed a total of 646 Native Quotes, led by these top contributors: