Native Quotes

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

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 shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us

When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital.

So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

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 also by environmentalists.

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.