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Quotes About Native

If something is written in your native language and it's taking you half a year to get through it, unless you're being paid by the hour to read it, I'd say there's a problem.
~ David Sedaris
Latin – if increasingly debased and diluted – continued to be the spoken and written language, used by the invaders and the native populations alike.
~ David Starkey
The man told Henry that the only native talent needed to play music well was joy.
~ Yann Martel
A man of any consequence in his native place, where he cannot go out but he meets with some recognition of his importance at every step, does not readily accustom himself to the sudden and total extinction of his consequence. You are somebody in your own country, in Paris you are nobody. The transition between the first state and the last should be made gradually, for the too abrupt fall is something like annihilation.
~ Honore de Balzac
Both areas are relatively closed populations with low standards of living and both contain Native American reservations. In this context, if one were going to conduct a program of testing new technological toys on an unwitting population
~ Unknown
The irony does not go unnoticed that here the Pope now proposes to elevate Serra to sainthood and yet, many know him to be a monster who separated, butchered and maimed Native families - all in the name of Christ, military and progress.
~ Unknown
I'm sorrowed to see the time spent in the echoing halls of criminal investigation have done nothing to curb your native vulgarity." They
~ Craig Johnson
The digitally native vertical brand (DNVB) is born on the Internet. It is aimed squarely at millennials and digital natives. It doesn't have to adapt to the future; it is the future. It doesn't need to get younger customers. It starts with younger customers.
~ Andy Dunn
I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
~ Adam Beach
We've been conditioned to see a video of white people in MAGA hats standing in front of a Native American and assume that the white people are racists.
~ Charlie Kirk
But first on earth as vampire sent Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent Then gastly haunt thy native place And suck the blood of all thy race
~ Lord Byron
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
~ Unknown
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.
~ Unknown
Indians made necklaces out of practically anything that took their fancy. Eagle and grizzly bear claws were prized by them because it required much skill and daring to get them.
~ Unknown
Ello nodded "I told him. Plus Garrett threw a plastic tomahawk into his room and I think it hit him." "Seems like sufficient notice." Hunter observed. "It was from the box of Thanksgiving decorations" Ello continued. "The tomahawk symbolizes our oppression of Native peoples. If there were any justice, we would all go back where we came from and leave the country to the people who were here first." "Okay" Hunter agreed "We'll leave after dinner." Ello gave him a dark fuming glare as he stood up.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
~ Sitting Bull
the Gila River Bapchule Indian Reservation, at
~ Dean Koontz
Prayer is indeed the Christian's vital breath and native air.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
It's tragic that those with the strongest ancestral tie to the land, the Native Americans, have so bitterly felt the chasm between the soaring words of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution and the harsh reality of governmental policy.
~ Dan Rather
Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow of the information being shown. It doesn't interrupt - native ads don't pop up or dance across the screen - and its content is actually valuable to the person viewing it.
~ Om Malik
As an Elizabeth native, I believe it is my duty to give back to my community. Our youth is our future, and it truly takes a village to raise a child.
~ Karen Civil
At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.
~ Joseph Bruchac
The story of our Commonwealth cannot be told without the history and experiences of Virginia's Native tribes.
~ Ralph Northam
Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised, and, should anything have gone a little wrong in this process, we will be reminded of this fault, by the scene of the crime, until the day we die.
~ John Cheever