I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw
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No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
Thomas Jefferson
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare
We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.
Benito Mussolini
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
Saint Jerome
Despite good intentions and best efforts, the stereotyping of Native Americans into narrow images is an undeniable consequence of choosing such names and symbols.
Bernard Franklin
SDUIH has been a major factor in assisting individuals in controlling their own destiny with proper health care, and achieving the quality of medical care they desire. The loss of SDUIH would have a detrimental impact on the community as well as the health care of the Native American community.
Bobbi Piasecki
I grew up 'interested in the Eagles,' so I guess you'd call me a fan. But they didn't win, so it's not like everything for me lived and died with the Eagles. I didn't have the passion of a native Philadelphian. When I was growing up, I was interested in the Packers and the Raiders.
John Spagnola
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
Anatole Broyard
Its dedicated Ethernet. The POPs are held together by native, Layer 2, dedicated Ethernet.
Alan Davis
Farm-raised shrimp don't have any taste. Not like native shrimp.
Peter Kendall
It's a great opportunity to learn about Missouri's native plants.
Barbara Fairchild
I've always been against such arguments, ... If we followed them [to their logical conclusion], then all of the Native American artifacts in England and Europe ought to be repatriated, and all of the European/Chinese/Indian art in American museums should go back, too.
Cathy Wright
I've been interested in getting our collection to have a broader literary sense and have gotten very excited about adding a Native American component, Right now we have very large collection of D.H. Lawrence and Charles Dickens - a couple [of] white guys from England.
Jim Carmin
The disease organism alone could be a problem for native species, even for humans.
Jerry Jackson
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
Sir Walter Scott
I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
Connie Willis
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
Beau Bridges
The main concern we have in the civil rights community isn't necessarily that that DOJ brought this case. It's that the department is not bringing meritorious cases on behalf of African-American and Native American voters.
Jon Greenbaum
We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.
Robert Owens
I also had to make contact with native Palestinians and learn how I would go from Jerusalem to the checkpoint between Israel and the West Bank. Different routes were inaccessible, and some of the checkpoints were closed.
Paul Kennedy
They are eating out the native Asian turtle population. So they are going to turn to the U.S.
Andy Price
This is the best run of wild, native steelhead we've had during winter in a long time.
Wayne Orzel
All we're asking for is that the school give Native American students a chance like they do their Caucasian counterparts.
Catherine Kim
Ethnic differences in beliefs about the meaning of illness, appropriate approaches for health management and individual responsibility for health may explain why black and Native American elders are more likely to use home remedies than white elders.
Joseph G. Grzywacz
There's not the same name recognition for Native artists as there is for the more mainstream . . . like Pollack, or Monet or Picasso.
Frank Goodyear
This is great way for kids to see these animals. Some exhibits let them compare the native with exotic species. And we've had a lot of babies so that's a wonderful opportunity for discovery.
Tasha Weinstein
Unless you are a Native American, everyone in here is the son or daughter of immigrants.
Cardinal Mahony
It can't compete with native species -- it wouldn't survive in the wild easily, but in the house it does just fine.
Darrell Ubick
Native Americans have a lot more cardiovascular disease than the population in general, but what we don't know is how much of their increased risk is due to their genetic background and how that background is modified by Western lifestyles and environmental factors.
Kristin Newby
What is happening in the Arctic will affect policy at the international and national level. Native populations have said, this is our food, our way of life, not just our wildlife.
Todd O'hara
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
Aristippus
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
Virginia Madsen
There are more than 400,000 'Native Hawaiians,' which would make them America's largest tribe. Two hundred forty thousand live in Hawaii, 60,000 in California, and 100,000 among the other 48 states.
Ken Conklin
A lot of this is about ensuring that native people in Hawaii are going to be able to survive into the next generation, that they're going to be healthy and have what all people in America expect.
Rev. Kaleo Patterson
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
Richard King
It was built to give native students a place to receive their education in a culturally appropriate place. It acts as a bridge connecting the campus and the surrounding native community.
Tina Kuckkahn
The concepts are native to community. It's a matter of what we can do with it. We can be a model for other communities.
Jack Simes
Little did I know I would become the first native-born Mexican-American to become an elementary school principal in Minnesota.
Maria Castro
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.
Alan Robinson
We heavily focused on native plants for this event. All of these plants will be native to North America.
Doug Conley
It would have been a bit more lively if it had been in people's native tongue.
Debra Kocher
Native workers are not stupid, they move to where there are higher wages and fewer immigrants.
George Borjas
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski
The art of Native Americans is integrated into the functional. Many times the designs have symbolic or even magical meanings.
Peter Jacobs
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
The animal is not likely to survive and if it does survive it's going to take a toll on the native wildlife that defines the character of Florida.
Henry Cabbage
These birds are all native to the Midwest. They're what the first people in this area ate. So in a sense, we're coming back full circle.
Jason Handelman
The issue of the logo mark ... that depicts a Native American in feathered headdress, adds to the use of Native American imagery that the broadest range of indigenous tribes and peoples find offensive and insulting.
Bernard Franklin
We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record.
Karen Adams
Like any other area where art has progressed, Native artists shouldn't be boxed in by tradition.
Peter Stoessel
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never foughtShould contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native landNever to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
Aristophanes
[For Liberty native and architecture historian Douglas Lewis, every Coast building has a story. The combination of French Creole and English architecture distinguishes the Coast from any other place on the nation's coastline, said Lewis, author of the forthcoming] Buildings of Mississippi ... Buildings of the United States.
National Gallery
Evidently the native Neanderthal populations of Europe succumbed much more rapidly to competition from the expanding biologically modern populations than previous estimates have generally assumed.
Paul Mellars
Italy is certainly the native country of this art: and yet, I do not find the people in general either more musically inclined, or better provided with ears than their neighbors.
Tobias G. Smollett
Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture?
John Mccarthy
Native fish like to lay eggs in gravel, not mud.
Stan Gregory
Next in the bloom sequence would be our native redbud.
Rachel Emrick
(As currently drafted) the Kyoto Protocol could actually accelerate forest destruction by giving incentives to plant large-scale plantations on formerly native forest land.
Jennifer Morgan
Idleness, women, disorder, a foolish partiality for one's own native place, discontent and timidity are six obstructions to greatness.
Hitopadesa
In my dream, the eagle was showing me how life for Native Americans used to be and some things that Native people should do to be healthy once again.
Georgia Perez
We do encourage native plants because they've evolved with native wildlife over eons.
Roxanne Paul
If greed turns tribes into these kinds of people . . . then money is bad for them, ... They are not true Native Americans.
Mike Jackson
I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.
Lynn Williams
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
Buffy Sainte marie
We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.
Terry Tempest Williams
Juan was a modern-day Ellis Island immigrant. He left his native country of Argentina to make a new life for himself and his family as a pilot in the United States.
Ron Gatewood
I would not change my native land, for rich Peru with all her gold.
Isaac Watts
That was a great courtesy. In the five-year cruise of the Decatur, this is the only time it happened with a native leader. Definitely a 'wow,' .
Lorraine Mcconaghy
Imagine the wailing accusations of hypocrisy in the US were Germany to build a national museum in Berlin to commemorate not Nazi genocide but US slavery or the extermination of the Native Indians.
Norman Finkelstein
It's one of the last, best refuges for these native fish in the Rocky Mountains.
Scott Bosse
The virus is going to spread in our own native birds and that's the challenge ahead of us.
Bob Mccracken
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
If you are an application provider, you just certify for the software stack, and you are golden whether you run native or virtual.
Simon Crosby
Wells Fargo is committed to helping Native Americans achieve the dream of homeownership. We're proud to be one of the nation's top mortgage lenders to Native Americans, and honored to have a role in this important financial education program that will enable even more Native Americans to buy a home.
Michael Elliott
Jazz is one of the great, truly native American art forms. Along with the movies, it's probably the art that the rest of the world associates most deeply with America.
Dana Gioia
Bullfrogs are better at surviving in disturbed and degraded habitats than the native fauna.
Kevan Urquhart
There's a disconnect between appreciation and funding for our Native Hawaiian artists and arts community.
Vicky Holt Takamine
This was seen as an opportunity to have a museum that is very much from the native perspective.
Thomas Sweeney
We bring in these raptors - many of whom can't fly because they're injured - and then a native raptor who lives in the area will show a great deal of interest, ... At one of these events, we had a huge red-tailed hawk come by and make a really big fuss.
Adrian Benepe
Imported and non-native brands are becoming an increasingly important part of the marketplace.
David Hartley
We love Justin. He's a native. It's very exciting to have someone of his significance participate in the music scene here.
Ray Fleming
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Henrik Ibsen
The beetles are native, so they've always been around causing a little mortality, and that's kind of a good thing. But when certain things happen, like the drought and fire, the population of the beetles builds up and it gives them the ability to move into healthy trees.
Amanda Milburn
Will the native XML database support replace the relational database? The answer is no.
Janet Perna
That's really all I want to see of those two countries. I've got no interest in the native wildlife. In fact it will be fine if I don't see any.
Tripp Isenhour
It really has a sophisticated culture. There's European influence. It has native American roots and influence from Africa and the United States.
Matt Lombardi
There are portions of the original Native American city the state would like to acquire for preservation.
David Blanchette
Our goal is to see that they are protected on native land.
Karen Sussman
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.
John Walker Lindh
We go to different cities (around the country) to introduce the contemporary Native American artists and to bring awareness to the work.
Peter Stoessel
The casting directors would always tell me that I was too exotic or I was too Native American-looking and they can't do anything with me and they don't make Westerns anymore.
Q'orianka Kilcher
There can never be enough people out there fighting for this cause. There's not as many people involved nowadays as there once were. I see what Ben is doing as being extremely important to Native American people.
Pat Cummins
(Native Americans) are disproportionately the new registrations.
Jennifer Ring
Georgetown has given to our nation a native son who will be the first person of color to have a portrait to hang in our capitol.
Jim Clyburn
This decision was made because it is not reasonable to cover up or remove all of the Native American imagery in the arena.
Bernard Franklin
As a species the cheetah is still in dire straits in Iran, so it is extremely encouraging to see an apparently healthy family in their native habitat.
Peter Zahler
All are being processed and will be removed to their native countries.
Doug Mosier
The law is clear that income from the casino gaming activities of Native American tribes is taxable.
Eileen J. O'connor
One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New Orleans native and recently passed away from hurricane Katrina.
Alfred Anderson
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