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Quotes About Native

You know you're an Arizona native when... a rainy day puts you in a good mood.
~ Unknown
You know you're an Arizona native when you run to the window just to watch a dust storm.
~ Unknown
Ahad Ha'am, for example, visited Palestine and observed that 'it is difficult to find fields that are not sowed'. He warned prophetically: 'If a time comes when our people in Palestine develop so that, in small or great measure, they push out the native inhabitants, these will not give up their place easily.
~ Unknown
Mount Rushmore, which old John Fire always called the "Giant Tourist Curio Ashtray.
~ Mary Brave Bird
It was a heyoka place, a place of sacred clowns who laughed while they wept. A
~ Unknown
I had the feeling that the feds were in a strange way afraid of us. While we were relaxed, as Indians usually are, they were nervous and trigger-happy. One
~ Unknown
even in her current nervous state Penelope recognized them as Mineola ferns, native to a long island whose name she could not quite recall" -Penelope
~ Unknown
One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that – think of all the wars we would have missed!
~ Unknown
MANY DUTCH CAME AS SETTLERS, THEY PUSHED THE NATIVE PEOPLE OFF THEIR LANDS. THE DUTCH FORMED THEIR OWN COLONY, A
~ Unknown
Oh, did I mention that he's Spanish, as in from Spain, and that he occasionally slips into his native tongue? (Add your own sexual innuendo here. It's just too easy for me. Really.) He's from Madrid but has lived here for more than a decade, long enough to master English, but without flattening his Castilian quirks. Who knew a lispy accent could be so manly? So damn sexy? I hear those "ths" clinging to his tongue and go loco.
~ Megan McCafferty
Rachel? my dad prompts. Do I have to...?" His stern expression answers my question Fine. I'm grateful that the Native Americans are finally getting revenge on the white man for destroying their culture, by building megacasinos.
~ Unknown
One way to destroy a personality is to cut out memory: one way to destroy a state is to cut out its history. Especially when that history comes out of the native language. Status is gone; continuity is disconnected;
~ Melvyn Bragg
As we have seen before, cities are like mad scientists, creating their own crazy ecological concoctions by throwing all kinds of native and foreign elements into the urban melting pot.
~ Unknown
Cristóbal Colón fue una gran decepción. Cuando zarpó no tenía ni idea de adónde iba y cuando llegó no tenía ni idea de dónde estaba. Si quieres joder a los nativos, es mucho mejor quedarse en casa.
~ Michael Dobbs
Almost invariably, any native with enough understanding of the system to bring it down has too much invested in it to want to see it fall,
~ Unknown
When algorithms become deeply embedded in our daily lives, they have the potential to greatly influence how we behave. If we reach that point, we will no longer be able to easily discern how much of our memory, experiences, tastes, or even our own identity is native to us and how much is merely the technological extensions of ourselves.
~ Unknown
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
You know you're an Arizona native when you "hug" a cactus only once in your lifetime.
~ Unknown
He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood
~ Natasha Trethewey
The servant, still a child, cranes his neck, turns his face up toward all of them. He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood, a pale mistress on his back, heavier every year.
~ Natasha Trethewey
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.
~ Unknown
Our country is the one our soul longs for, the one which is dearest of all to us. My country is—you! That is my native land, and I bear that country in my heart.
~ Nikolai Gogol
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
~ Oliver Goldsmith