Native Quotes - Page 25

• Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wish, Native Place

  Letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 17 July 1771, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 141

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• The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

  Euripides

  Common Sense, Prophet, Wit

  Euripides (1968). “Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore”

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• The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, Crops, Natal

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• I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Art, Native American, Years

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• 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

  Selfish, Native American, Needs

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• There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Long, Interesting

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.48, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Nature, Texas, Land

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• 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

  Land, Judgment, Stranger

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• I'm a Native American actress.

  Julia Jones

  Native American, Actresses

  "Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones Press Conference THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE". collider.com. June 22, 2010.

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• There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

  Julia Jones

  Native American, Female, Way

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

  Calamity Jane

  Texas, August, Married

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Grateful, Japan, Earthquakes

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• From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

  Jared Polis

  Brother, Native American, Arrivals

  Jared Polis' at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!

  Chance the Rapper

  Girl, Lying, Believe

  "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Girl, Moon, Naive

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• 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

  Dad, House, Moved On

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• My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

  Rita Wilson

  Mother, Father, Greek

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  Native American, Thinking, Names

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• Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.

  Peter Farb

  Mistake, School, Speech

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.258, Vintage

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

  Chaske Spencer

  Native American, Thinking, People

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• What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wisdom, Mind, Use

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

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Children, Native American, Giving

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• Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.

  Wovoka

  Native American, Satisfaction In Life, Giving

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• 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.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Would Be, Foolish

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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