Native Lands Quotes

#1. Everyone is naked under his clothes and everyone is a foreigner outside his native lands.

Gisli Palsson

#2. We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

Pope Francis

#3. Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. The line between justice and injustice, between things being right and things not being right, can't be drawn between "us" and "them." It runs right down through the middle of each one of us.

N. T. Wright

#6. My native land is all lands,
In no particular direction.
My monastery is the solitary mountains,
In no particular place.
My family is all the beings of the six realms.

SHABKAR

#7. One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.

Will Advise

#8. Watch out for men who love something more than themselves or you. Their passion can be your prison.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#9. Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Agnes Repplier

#10. Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind?
You have a difficult choice. I made that choice once and it changed my whole life, by giving me experiences I never would have had if I took the easy street and had not tried.

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

#11. Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

Theodor Mommsen

#12. Late one day James and I watch the sun fly across the sky like a basketball on fire until it falls down completely and lands in Benjamin Lake with a splash and shakes the ground and even wakes up Lester FallsApart who thought it was his father come back to slap his face again.

Sherman Alexie

#13. The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Siobhan Davies

#14. Cultural appropriation is especially egregious when it involves the co-optation of spiritual ceremonies and the inappropriate use of lands deemed sacred by Native peoples.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#15. The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

Gary Zukav

#16. I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Eric Idle

#17. It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.

Rick Renzi

#18. Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one - and had no
idea what to do with it?
I'm that dog.

Gayle Forman

#19. The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

John Zorn

#20. Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

Winona LaDuke

#21. ... for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

Louisa May Alcott

#22. They go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

William Tyndale

#23. We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.

Canasatego

#24. I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!

Jane Wiedlin

#25. The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind.
However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity.
Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

Brian W. Aldiss

#26. The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

Mark Twain

#27. In alien lands I keep the body
Of ancient native rites and things:
I gladly free a little birdie
At celebration of the spring.
I'm now free for consolation,
And thankful to almighty Lord:
At least, to one of his creations
I've given freedom in this world!

Alexander Pushkin

#28. We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

Francis Quarles

#29. Tis often seen
Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
A native slip to us from foreign lands.

William Shakespeare