Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

Facts are Godâ€™s native tongue. — Michael Dowd
What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks… — Winston Churchill
What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks. — John Dryden
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him… — Emma Goldman
I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown,… — John Quincy Adams
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am… — Stephen Leacock
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry… — Henry Louis Gates
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist,… — Newt Gingrich
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native… — Emma Goldman
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to… — Emma Goldman
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here. — Joan Collins
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received… — Jared Diamond
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen… — Jared Diamond
I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is… — Junot Diaz
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. — Steve Earle
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my… — Gloria Estefan
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. — Stephen Hawking
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. — Eric Hoffer
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' — Henrik Ibsen
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised!… — Eddie Izzard

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