Native Quotes - Page 38

• Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

  Casey Miller

  Native Language, Ideas, Skins

  Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Simplicity, Charm

  Oliver Goldsmith, Walter MACLEOD (of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.) (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.71

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

  Jaron Lanier

  Children, Kids, Technology

  14 Copy quote

• The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Land, Soil

  6 Copy quote

• For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

  Plato

  Men, Evil, Religion

  Plato (1934). “The Laws of Plato”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?

  Massasoit

  Mother, Children, Native American

  100 Copy quote

• Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Children, Native American, Smell

  54 Copy quote

• We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Beautiful, Native American, Blessing

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “My People the Sioux”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no man can claim to know what is best for mankind. Wakan Tanka and Grandfather alone know what is best, and this is why, even though I am worried, my attitude is not overcome with fear of the future. I submit always to Wakan Tanka's will. This is not easy, and most people find it impossible, but I have seen the power of Prayer and I have seen God's desires fulfilled. So I pray always that God will give me wisdom to accept his way of doing things.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Prayer, Attitude, Native American

  85 Copy quote

• For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Native American, Friendly, Wilderness

  Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly done by immigrants are in fact majority native-born: 51 percent of maids are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors, and 73 percent of janitors.

  Mark Krikorian

  Jobs, Occupation, Facts

  7 Copy quote

• A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is an absolutely extraordinary and bold career move that Darwin has made in leaving the Orchestra and embarking on the trajectory of a solo performer/educator. And what a marvelous thing it is for Detroit to be able to welcome home a successful native son - one in whom the community can take pride, and one who will serve as an inspiration to a younger generation of aspiring performers eager to make their mark in the world.

  David Cerone

  Inspiration, Moving, Home

  4 Copy quote

• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  Herodotus

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

  19 Copy quote

• Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.

  Herodotus

  Block, Archer, Fighting

  56 Copy quote

• I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Native American, Funny Thanksgiving, Soy

  16 Copy quote

• You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

  Dylan Brody

  Thanksgiving, Wise, Native American

  45 Copy quote

• I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

  Connie Willis

  Marriage, Sex, Gay

  68 Copy quote

• In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, White Man, Supremacy

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

  Ivan van Sertima

  Native American, Discovery, People

  Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke “Dr. Ivan Van Sertima- 8 DVD video lectures: 8 DVDs, Best viewed on wifi on phones or tablets. iPads or Android (use google Play Book app to view. Gmail account required)”, Clemson Brown

  105 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them.

  Roland Allen

  Christian, Teaching, Waiting

  19 Copy quote

• She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Men, Class

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

  Lewis Mumford

  Order, Issues, Finals

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "The Fulfillment of Man", 1951.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

  Euripides

  Grief, Loss, Land

  10 Copy quote

• Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the
  atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native
  Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted
  that “the country will be in the hands of white
  Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.
  The former being a little superior in education,
  as they are inferior in every moral virtue.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Country, Hands, White

  Jon Lee Anderson (2010). “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life”, p.6, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

  Cyril Cusack

  Theatre, Soil

  4 Copy quote