Native Quotes

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She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression… — Vladimir Nabokov
I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got… — Banana Yoshimoto
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the… — Wallace Stegner
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but… — Winona LaDuke
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the… — Tim Wise
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I… — Richelle Mead
The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it. — Richard Dawkins
I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. — Siegfried Sassoon
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to… — Alain de Botton
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read… — Wilma Mankiller
Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and… — William Shakespeare
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy,… — Herman Wouk
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the… — Oscar Wilde
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in… — Raymond Chandler
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of… — Charles Alexander Eastman
This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter… — Anna Akhmatova
When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their… — Mary Pipher

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