Native famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.
-- Alan Robinson -
I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
-- Barack Obama -
... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.
-- Chief Dan George -
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.
-- Chief Dan George -
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
-- Chief Joseph -
I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.
-- Cyril Cusack -
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us
-- Dennis Banks -
You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.
-- Ivan van Sertima -
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
-- Joan D. Vinge -
One's native land!?there should one live! there die!
-- Jules Verne -
I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
-- Kara DioGuardi -
There is no place in this world warmer than our native land.
-- Khem Veasna -
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.
-- Nicole Holofcener -
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history
-- Rick Renzi -
I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.
-- Rick Renzi -
I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say...
-- Sitting Bull -
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
-- V. S. Pritchett -
The head is not more native to the heart.
-- William Shakespeare -
However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.
-- Christian Karlson Stead -
My music demands something of the listener, it is demanding music. I think that's a good thing. I'm not chiselling anything in stone or serving you any truths. Even to native Norwegian speakers, my lyrics are veiled. I'm asking questions.
-- Einar Selvik -
Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.
-- Manfred Gerstenfeld -
I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.
-- Quentin S. Crisp