Best 57 quotes in «native quotes» category

Off Spruce, there was a little known trail. A savage gulley wound through acreage of older residential homes that met up with Green Rock Drive. A natural bouquet gust of wind assaulted me. The domestic and native encroached on each other in a battle for dominance at the edges of the cramped path's undergrowth. The tangy scent of wild onion and sagebrush intermingled with the verdant odor of wild geranium, blue flax, columbine and creeping pussytoes. The wild weeds spiced up the encroaching grass turf and the tamed floral honeysuckle vines and lilac bushes.

It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing—just describing things as we see them, the simple, unadorned facts.

Mykl d’Angelo groaned where he sat slumped in his chair. The irritating noise was unsettling his pet dog lying on his lap. The wickerwork garden chair creaked pleasantly under him and some native Earth birds made pleasant sounds above while the cool wind wafted over him as he lazily …

Pull back the curtain and jump down the rabbit hole.

The land is always there...it is you who has to return

Pensaron cómo harían brotar la luz, la cual recibiría alimento de eternidad. La luz se hizo entonces en el seno de lo increado. Contemplaron así la naturaleza original de la vida que está en la entraña de lo desconocido.

Penyelamatan tahanan terus berlangsung: tim palang merah internasional kemudian datang dan semua tahanan segera akan diterbangkan ke Eropa. Negiri ini bagaimanapun tak cukup aman bagi orang-orang sipil, apalagi setelah selama tiga tahun di dalam tahanan. Orang-orang pribumi telah memerdekakan diri, dan milisi-milisi bersenjata berdiri di mana-mana.....Perang belum berakhir, bahkan baru dimulai, dan dinamakan oleh orang pribumi sebagai perang revolusi.

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

Sólo se sentía la tranquilidad sorda de las aguas, las cuales parecía que se despeñaban en el abismo.

That the native does not like the tourist is not hard to explain. For 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. Every native would like to find a way out, every native would like a rest, every native would like a tour. But some natives—most natives in the world—cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go—so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.

To see me real native language is like to search in empty bucket, I use my native language few times and English more often. But who is my native language and have I used it already?? (is the best question!)

The result of being colonized is the internalization of the need to remain invisible.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

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

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

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

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

I'm a Native American actress.

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

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

I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans." And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.

I've always said that the big difference between South America and North America with regard to the native population is that in North America they raped them and killed them, and in South America they raped them and married them. The mix was much greater, and that was very good.

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

My music demands something of the listener, it is demanding music. I think that's a good thing. I'm not chiselling anything in stone or serving you any truths. Even to native Norwegian speakers, my lyrics are veiled. I'm asking questions.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. As an Onondaga friend put it to me, "you can't pick berries until the berries are ripe.

My native land, good night!

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us

There is no place in this world warmer than our native land.

The working people are bound to their native shores.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.