Native Quotes

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.

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.

Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.

For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

The power of the world always works in circles.

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

There is no place in this world warmer than our native land.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

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 land.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

The head is not more native to the heart.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.