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People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. — Amy Bloom

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. — Siegfried Sassoon

I want them to see the magic of how
everything is related: To walk out into the night and see the Green Corn Moon levitate across the sky. — Autumn Morning Star

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. — Howard Rheingold

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural. — Henry David Thoreau

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it. — Victor Hugo

I'm a freak with power. — Sherman Alexie

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child. — John Ruskin

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. — William E. Conway Jr.

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will. — D.H. Lawrence

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? — John Milton

The head is not more native to the heart. — William Shakespeare

What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things? — Maxine Kumin

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society. — Winona LaDuke

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. — Eric Balfour

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

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

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. — Mourning Dove

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade. — G.G. Collins

In Russia there are no native words for efficiency, challenge, engagement ring, have fun, or take care — Bill Bryson

The only good Indian is a dead Indian — William Tecumseh Sherman

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

Being a digital native may have long-term consequences related to learning how to read. — Jason Merkoski

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. — Native American Saying

As great as is the light above us, greater by far is the light within. — Anasazi Foundation

I am a nationalist ... my native soil is the theatre. — Cyril Cusack

My music is more native than intricate or technical. — Dick Dale

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. — Blaise Pascal

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

I grew up
where the family of butterflies
the Silver Cloud
is native. — Diane Wakoski

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants. — Sherman Alexie

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. — Chief White Eagle

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' — Henrik Ibsen

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. — Barack Obama

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

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. — Chief Seattle

Stallions," Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA — Veronica Randolph Batterson

Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader. — Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell

No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed. — S. Alice Callahan

I have heard that in the New Zealand native tradition, the soul, when it dies, becomes a star. — Eleanor Catton

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. — Democritus

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

It's not about Indians, it's about people... the overall philosophy is to reconnect all people to nature and inevitably themselves. - Larry Stillday — Michael Meuers

There is no substitute to living in one's native land, struggling and winning with one's own people. — Mario I. Miclat

I'm interested only in buying land in my native Hawaii so that one day I can live there and have the space to rescue animals. — Marie Helvin

He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts — Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers

Judge not a fellow man by the number of noses he has on his face, but by the number of faces he has on his nose. — Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers

The Red Army ... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes. — George F. Kennan

You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions. — Violetta Botzet Luetgers

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. — Walter Scott

To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. — Warren G. Bennis

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean De La Bruyere

When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole. — Blake Crouch

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. — Michael Tippett

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

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. — Alexander McCall Smith

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air. — Anton Chekhov

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is. — Kara DioGuardi

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian. — Henry Ford

What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out. — Jon Voight

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. — Emma Goldman

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

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

I can't make out what they're saying; it sounds like: hiss, blah, she hiss, squeak. But the aunt appears to speak the native language. — Emma Chase

They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million. — David Letterman

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. — Gerald Vizenor

Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker) — Jamie-Leigh Haden

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. — Juan Goytisolo

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. — Chief Seattle

I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street ... I am really a native New Yorker. — Matt McGorry

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic." — Joseph Boyden

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital. — Daniel Snyder

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. — Russell Means

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. — Amanda Hearst

You must know where you came from yesterday, know where you are today, to know where you're going tomorrow." -Cree saying — Trace A. DeMeyer

Now, in my opinion, the procession of the native inhabitants was fine; — Plato

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. — Alexander Hamilton

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk. — Sherman Alexie

We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors. — Sunday Adelaja

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. — V.S. Pritchett

In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we've laughed. — Gloria Steinem

But we once had some, we white men, in one of the islands. Not the Oui-ouis" (native name for the French), "real white men. — Andrew Lang

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

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression. — Lemn Sissay

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. — Chief Joseph

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. — Samuel Johnson

Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people. — Anasazi Foundation

Your Gods and my Gods - do you or I know which are the stronger? - Native Proverb. — Rudyard Kipling

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state. — Gerald McRaney

Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts. — Anasazi Foundation

All that hath been majestical
In life or death, since time began,
Is native in the simple heart of all,
The angel heat of man. — James Russell Lowell

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it. — Ovid