Native Quotes - Page 36

• By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

  John Ross

  Native American, Pursuit, Civilized

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• Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Hands

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Native American, Nfl

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• The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective, legislation has now gone so far that it may well be asked what purpose or plan there is or what possible outcome there can be from a system that confines the native within a legal status that has more in common with that of a born idiot than of any other class of British subject.

  Paul Hasluck

  Leadership, Class, Purpose

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• What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

  Euripides

  Grief, Loss, Land

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• Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the
  atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native
  Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted
  that “the country will be in the hands of white
  Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.
  The former being a little superior in education,
  as they are inferior in every moral virtue.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Country, Hands, White

  Jon Lee Anderson (2010). “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life”, p.6, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Cyril Cusack

  Theatre, Soil

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• Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Cutting, Caring, Hands

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• For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Distance, Native American, White

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• Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.

  Richard Louv

  Character, Eight, Average

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Lukas Foss

  War, Shoes, Childhood

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• America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!

  Carlos Bulosan

  Country, Jobs, Book

  Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.22, University of Washington Press

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• There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.

  danah boyd

  Technology, People, Engagement

  "Danah Boyd: 'People looked at me like I was an alien'" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2009.

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• What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Sports, Fire, Air

  James Sheridan Knowles (1837). “The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts”

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• In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

  Daniel Brook

  Native American, Turkeys, Together

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• Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species.

  Dennis Banks

  Believe, Native American, People

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• In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe.

  Tatanka

  Native American, Marijuana, Two

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• As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

  John Milton

  Children, Native Language, Delight

  John Milton (1748). “The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, ... Paradise Regain'd, ... Samson Agonistes, ... And His Poems on Several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. In Two Volumes”, p.58

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• The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled workers, machinery, a market, peace and order - a vast apparatus and a pervasive atmosphere, the joint creation of millions of men and scores of generations. Take away the whole social factor, and we have not Robinson Crusoe with his salvage from the wreck and his acquired knowledge, but the native savage living on roots, berries and vermin.

  Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

  Thinking, Men, Hands

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• Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Land, Literature, Soil

  J. Frank Dobie (2010). “Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest”, p.7, University of Texas Press

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• I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

  John Dryden

  Life, Native Language, Trade

  John Dryden (1988). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume V: Poems, 1697”, p.336, Univ of California Press

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• If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Strong, War, Discovery

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

  Aristophanes

  Men, Grieving, Hands

  Aristophanes (1960). “Aristophanes with the English translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers”

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• Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing them any favors if you override the browser functionality with your own widget, even if you think your widget looks better.

  Jeremy Keith

  Thinking, Design, Looks

  Jeremy Keith (2010). “HTML5 for Web Designers”

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• I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sarcastic, Native American, Wonderful

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