Natives Quotes
88 quotes by 80 authors
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The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow…
— Will Ferguson
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I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians,…
— Herbert
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The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives...…
— Susan Orlean
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Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them…
— Bartolome de las Casas
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If you're ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don't know how to speak the natives' language, just say "Poppy-oomy." I bet it means…
— Jack Handey
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People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They…
— Colin Firth
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Super silver, Hawaiian haze Sativa, indica, Solomon's grave Genesis, chapter one verse twelve ways Marijuana, hashish, everybody blaze Fuels and fibers, energy saved When the…
— Aceyalone
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What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants…
— James Cook
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How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?
— Prince Philip
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Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience…
— Charles Sturt
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Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated,…
— Isak Dinesen
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house…
— Sarah Vowell
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The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the…
— Barack Obama
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Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the…
— William Bligh
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On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen…
— William Bligh
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country;…
— Aleister Crowley
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I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is…
— John Hanning Speke
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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