Quotes of: Native Keyword

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

John Boyega

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

Bill Bryson

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

Edith Piaf

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Charles Eastman

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

Jared Polis

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

James Russell Lowell

Carl Denham: [observing the natives dancing] Holy mackerel! What a show!

King Kong

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

Howard Rheingold

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

Stephen Ambrose

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

The Return of the Native

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Native Son

Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.

Stephen Kinzer

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

Kenneth L. Pike

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

Ken Starr

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

Lemn Sissay

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Marcus Aurelius

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.

Matt McGorry

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