Native Quotes - Page 39

• New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, New York, Native American

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.299, Macmillan

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• It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites our admiration expands us. The Indian, who can find his way so wonderfully in the woods, possesses an intelligence which the white man does not,--and it increases my own capacity, as well as faith, to observe it. I rejoice to find that intelligence flows in other channels than I knew. It redeems for me portions of what seemed brutish before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Men, Discovery

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1361, e-artnow

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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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• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  Ambrose

  Kindness, Land, Rude

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• As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation they had a Day Without Immigrants, is what they call it. Or, as Native Americans call it, the good ol' days.

  Jay Leno

  Native American, Today, Los Angeles

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• Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Blessed, Home, Heaven

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• When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

  Mark Twain

  Native American, Son, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.319, Xist Publishing

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

  Margaret Sanger

  Southern, Born, Inferiors

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• I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.

  Steve Martin

  Country, Believe, Native Language

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

  Charles Kuralt

  Land, Native Land

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• The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.

  Philip French

  Independent, Genre Is, Cinema

  "Nothing happens, but..." by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.

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• Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

  Aristotle

  Art, Son, Planning

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• Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Artist, Men, Giving

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• We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were on that boat and what the experience was like for them, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and also the Native Americans and what the state of Native American society was at that time.

  John Landgraf

  Character, Native American, People

  "FX CEO John Landgraf Talks FARGO Limited Series, THE STRAIN, and More; Says THE STRAIN Will End Up Running Between 39 and 65 Episodes". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2013.

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• With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

  John Smith

  Country, World, Causes

  John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

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• It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground...A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."

  Rudolf Steiner

  Home, Men, Intimate Relationships

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• Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies. Then, it hurls the non-white workers of one colony against those of another non-white colony. Finally, it relies on the Colored workers of the colonies to rule the White workers. Recently, White French soldiers near mutiny in the occupied Ruhr of Germany, were surrounded by French African soldiers, and colored native light-infantry were sent against White German strikers.

  Ho Chi Minh

  White, Light, Perfection

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• We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.

  Terence McKenna

  Looks, Attention, World

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

  Terence McKenna

  Mental Illness, Absence, Shamanism

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

  Karl Marx

  Tools, Despotism, Strongholds

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• In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Light, Meditation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.144, Harvard University Press

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• On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his days as a slave in Ireland to his work as missionary years later, St. Patrick demonstrated a courage, commitment, and faith that won the hearts and minds of the Irish people. St. Patrick's Day also serves as a time for people of Irish descent from all traditions and religions to honor their native land and shared heritage. Their devotion to family, faith, and community has strengthened our country's character.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Heart, Character

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• August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

  Henry Rollins

  School, August, Heat And Humidity

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• In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by thehuman voice,--take the sound of a bugle in a summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speak without satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts in their native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I can understand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

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• But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Encounters, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.315, Library of America

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