Quotes of: Native-land Keyword

And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.

Standing Bear

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

Paul Harris

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Charles Sturt

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

Jonathan Silverman

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

Duane Chapman

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

Studs Terkel

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

Eric Hoffer

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Camille Claudel

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

Robbie Robertson

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Robert Duvall

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.

Amanda Hearst

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

Alice Walker

What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of ...

Becoming Native to This Place

Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at the same time. To do so would have been not only impolite, but foolish; for poise, so much admired as a social grace, coul...

The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle

Fred C. Dobbs: You know, if I was a native, I'd get me a can of shoe polish and I'd be in business. They'd never let a gringo. You can sit on a bench 'til you're three-quarters starved... you can beg from another gringo... you can even commit burglar...

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on by the discrediting of objectivity is especially relevant to understanding the poem, because the problem of knowledge...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.

Kenyan

In the realm of Ahura, there are two lands, one of light and one of dark. The land of light is where the mountain lay, and near its top is where the Zoroastrians dwell. They are the people of the land, and the chosen Twelve are their most powerful le...

Ruby

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary...

Pablo Neruda