Quotes having the keyword Native
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
by William Shenstone (Poet, English , born in 1714) topics: Patriotism keywords: bear, country, foreign, increasing, love, means, native, our, proper, reside, some , time Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
by Edith Sitwell (Poet, British , born in 1887) keywords: baby, element, ever, get, hot, native, never, out, seemed, since , water 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.
by Georg Solti (Musician, Hungarian , born in 1912) keywords: became, circumstances, country, day, destiny, family, home, hunt, hunted, into, left, life, music, native, object, parted, prevented, returning, searched, still, turned , young I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
by John H. Spekekeywords: accurately, africa, civilisation, describe, european, evil, good, impulse, native, places, profess, received, slightest, those, where , whether A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
by George Stigler (Economist, American , born in 1911) keywords: abroad, citizens, discuss, economist, fellow, fifty, get, goes, his, instructions, language, native, opinions, physicist, swedish, thousands, unless, upon , work 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.
by Hudson Stuck (Explorer, English , born in 1865) keywords: alaska, been, being, day, distinction, earned, first, foot, great, had, human, lead, lifelong, mountain, native, scramble, set, top, up, upon, walter , well 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.
by John Millington Synge (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1871) keywords: complaint, contain, death, eighty, every, grief, island, keen, lurks, native, over, passionate, personal, rage, seems, somewhere, whole, woman , years I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
by Studs Terkel (Journalist, American , born in 1912) keywords: always, american, books, decency, deep, facts, felt, information, intelligence, native , providing Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
by James Thurber (Comedian, American , born in 1894) keywords: american, composition, curious, fast, getting, graphic, native, noblest, rewards, satisfies, scarcely, sense, somewhere, speed, urge, virtue , which Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
by Michael Tippett (Composer, English , born in 1905) keywords: american, any, art, music, native, performing, score, tell , will It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: class, congress, could, criminal, distinctly, except, facts, figures, native, probably , shown The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
by Stewart Udall (Politician, American , born in 1920) keywords: alive, american, brother, common, creatures, earth, elemental, ethic, his, land, loving, most, native, peoples, primitive, reverence, shared, son, touch , trait We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
by Benjamin Whorf (Scientist, American , born in 1897) keywords: along, dissect, down, laid, language, lines, native, nature , our 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.
by Connie Willis (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: am, amendment, ban, colorado, did, marriage, member, militia, native, same-sex , vote I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
by Terri Windling (Artist) keywords: american, any, celtic, early, except, folk, kind, lot, music, native, show , tunes In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.
by Terri Windling (Artist) keywords: also, american, become, fascinated, folklore, hispanic, indigenous, land, live, more, native, now, recent, southwest , years Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: allow, aspires, believes, dangerous, example, greater, happier, his, how, knowledge, learn, man, much, native, nature, precepts, pursuit, than, then, town, will , world Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
by Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, American , born in 1970) keywords: bred, buildings, character, environment, ground, light, lightness, married, native, organic, qualified, spiders, spinning , strength
