Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you… — Chief Dan George
Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one… — Luther Standing Bear
The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It… — Wooden Leg
I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies… — Wovoka
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take… — Wovoka
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do… — Black Elk
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear
Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight.… — Wovoka
When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told… — Wovoka
Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as… — Crowfoot
Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it… — Ten Bears
You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me… — Standing Bear
Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but… — Winona LaDuke
A lot of people they donâ€™t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for… — Gayl Jones
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more… — William Shakespeare
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of… — Walter Scott
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But… — William Cowper
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths… — Edmond Rostand

Who Wrote These Native Quotes

477 authors contributed a total of 646 Native Quotes, led by these top contributors: