Native Quotes - Page 31

• The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer. Are thousands of missionaries and tens of thousands of native workers needed? Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Crazy, Native American

  "Eddie Izzard: Circle". Documentary, Comedy, 2000.

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• When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

  Sophocles

  Fall, People, Sorrow

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Country, Men, Cosmopolitanism

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.575, Delphi Classics

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

  Isaac Watts

  Gold, Rich, Peru

  Isaac Watts (1855). “Dr. Watts's Divine and Moral Songs, etc”, p.4

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• The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Garden, Eden, Negative

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• In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.

  George Soros

  Strong, Money, Marine

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• I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Land, Tuscany, Products

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• The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Eye, Views, Different

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1958). “Language and Life”

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• Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Crush, Travel, Boredom

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.18, Macmillan

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• The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Native American, Sides, Unbelievable

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

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Native American, White, Simplicity

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.4, World Wisdom, Inc

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• On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

  Ken Salazar

  Country, Native American, New Relationship

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• When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

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• Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Bible, Pygmalion, Native Language

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals. We cannot sell the lives of men and animals. It was put here by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us

  Crowfoot

  Native American, Animal, Men

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• High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

  Walter Scott

  Art, Mean, Pride

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.101

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• Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

  William Cowper

  Moving, Oysters, Water

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.617

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• For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

  Abraham Cowley

  Home, World, Rooms

  Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Poems of Cowley”, p.113

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• 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.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Trying, Legs, Spirit

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.125, Vintage

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• My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

  Will Rogers

  Native American, Ancestry, Boat

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• 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

  Country, Native American, Numbers

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• A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

  Black Hawk

  Success, Heart, Native American

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• It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

  Martin Delany

  Men, Land, America

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• Facts are God’s native tongue.

  Michael Dowd

  Tongue, Facts

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.88, Penguin

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