Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. — Franz Liszt
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from… — Audre Lorde
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. — James Russell Lowell
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so… — Miriam Makeba
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The… — David Mamet
I can speak Esperanto like a native. — Spike Milligan
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison
I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you… — Grover Norquist
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. — Rand Paul
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. — Steven Pinker
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. — Alexander Pope
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those… — Bonnie Raitt
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant. — ASAP Rocky
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family. — Susan Sarandon
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. — Edith Sitwell
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. — Sonia Sotomayor
Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions,… — David Suzuki
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the… — Studs Terkel

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