Native Quotes

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

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

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing.

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

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

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.

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.

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.

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

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.