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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf
INDIAN PROVERB Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
TONI MORRISON My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.
ERIC BALFOUR They called her the Native American Julia Roberts.
SASKIA KILCHER Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.
RUSSELL MEANS No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of triba...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live you life in a manner so that when you die...
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside o...
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB We always return to our first loves.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB Every animal knows more than you do
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it form our children.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB Women are like a hurricane, at first warm wet and wild and in the end they take your house and your ...
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB Unless you are a Native American, everyone in here is the son or daughter of immigrants.
CARDINAL MAHONY The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
GERALD VIZENOR But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of ...
BERNIE SANDERS The issue of the logo mark ... that depicts a Native American in feathered headdress, adds to the us...
BERNARD FRANKLIN I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
TAMARA TUNIE Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn e...
WILMA MANKILLER If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.
RUSSELL MEANS I'd only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddam...
SHERMAN ALEXIE I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you kno...
SHERMAN ALEXIE I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to w...
ANASAZI FOUNDATION Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
YANCY BUTLER I am surprised you didn’t whack your head on an overhanging branch back there. I have never seen a...
JENNIFER FRICK-RUPPERT Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the is...
AARON NEVILLE We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record.
KAREN ADAMS From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.
JARED POLIS They are native South American jungle creatures that still roam wild in parts of Brazil.
DAVID NELLIS The result of the intense orientation toward those English tests is that some schools that have or a...
ANDREW GARRETT When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful,...
PHILIPP MEYER The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplici...
CHARLES EASTMAN To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native Ameri...
RICHARD KING Since word is thrall, and thought is free,
Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
JAMES I OF SCOTLAND I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good...
DUANE CHAPMAN Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with bl...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especiall...
W.G. HOSKINS This decision was made because it is not reasonable to cover up or remove all of the Native American...
BERNARD FRANKLIN There are portions of the original Native American city the state would like to acquire for preserva...
DAVID BLANCHETTE In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will b...
WINONA LADUKE Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they'll send rain and good crops and th...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER They're all gone, my tribe is gone. Those blankets they gave us, infected with smallpox, have killed...
SHERMAN ALEXIE Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been...
VINE DELORIA JR. Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
CHIEF SEATTLE We've been told we cut fringe like a Native American would. And I think that's quite a compliment.
BILL MORGAN Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form...
ANATOLE BROYARD When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.
MARK TWAIN My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di...
TAMARA TUNIE Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on ho...
ANASAZI FOUNDATION Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgott...
ANASAZI FOUNDATION I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am mov...
ANASAZI FOUNDATION There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.
ANASAZI FOUNDATION No longer will Native American culture be bottled up in collections and hidden from so many people i...
BEN CAMPBELL I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Nat...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are un...
JOHN LEWIS The treatment received by Native American students in Winner and throughout the region is completely...
JENNIFER RING The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.
RICHARD WRIGHT When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.
DAVE ATTELL We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of l...
JAMES CALVIN I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in...
ALAN ROBINSON It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American crimin...
MARK TWAIN All we're asking for is that the school give Native American students a chance like they do their Ca...
CATHERINE KIM One of the main attractions I have to the clinic is how sensitive they are to the Native American cu...
BOBBI PIASECKI Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?
ANASAZI FOUNDATION The rabbit or hare in Native American folklore is a trickster, as it is in European folklore. Throug...
HOWARD SPENCER Little did I know I would become the first native-born Mexican-American to become an elementary scho...
MARIA CASTRO Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection...
CHIEF LUTHER STANDING BEAR I want to tell you something, ... I'm Native American, and you calling me Chief, it turns my stomach...
BILLY MILLS Mackenzie, our profession courts death, madness is always just over the next rise, the next hillock�...
JIM CHERRY It is too often the case,” Crook said, “that border newspapers … disseminate all sorts of exag...
DEE BROWN Life moved, as inconstant and fickle as Wind Baby, frolicking, sleeping, weeping, but never truly st...
KATHLEEN O'NEAL GEAR The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were ...
GLORIA STEINEM As a member of the American Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet and native of Louisiana, I am writi...
TIM MCGRAW I guess you hate the people most who make justifiable demands. Because they go to the heart of our p...
MARY CROW DOG Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan—the holy air—which...
JOHN (FIRE) LAME DEER “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS It would have been a bit more lively if it had been in people's native tongue.
DEBRA KOCHER I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot ...
TERRI WINDLING The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about he...
DANIEL SNYDER The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of...
JOHN RUSSELL The main concern we have in the civil rights community isn't necessarily that that DOJ brought this ...
JON GREENBAUM There were 5,000 fewer native born American citizens employed in 2004 than were employed in 2000, .....
JOHN HOSTETTLER The Holy Land is everywhere
BLACK ELK Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory...
VINE DELORIA JR. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make
heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry ...
GEORGE CHAPMAN Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
THOMAS FULLER Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest
over the threshold thereof.
THOMAS FULLER We heavily focused on native plants for this event. All of these plants will be native to North Amer...
DOUG CONLEY Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live you life in a manner so that when you die...
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside o...
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB We always return to our first loves.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB Every animal knows more than you do
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it form our children.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB Women are like a hurricane, at first warm wet and wild and in the end they take your house and your ...
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB Loose lips sink ships
AMERICAN PROVERB A mill cannot grind with water that is past.
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't cry over spilled milk
AMERICAN PROVERB Feed a cold; starve a fever
AMERICAN PROVERB You can't fit a round peg in a square hole
AMERICAN PROVERB Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
AMERICAN PROVERB When it rains, it pours
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't hide your light under a bushel
AMERICAN PROVERB Ignorance is bliss
AMERICAN PROVERB Always count the cost.
AMERICAN PROVERB There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
AMERICAN PROVERB The love of evil is the root of all money.
AMERICAN PROVERB The best things in life are free.
AMERICAN PROVERB Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
AMERICAN PROVERB You don't put robbers to work in a bank
AMERICAN PROVERB A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.
AMERICAN PROVERB The wish is the father of the deed
AMERICAN PROVERB Cunning men deal in generalizations.
AMERICAN PROVERB The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating ho...
AMERICAN MANAGEMENT Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.
AMERICAN PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
AMERICAN PROVERB Variety is the spice of life
AMERICAN PROVERB It's never over till it's over
AMERICAN PROVERB If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.
AMERICAN PROVERB A clear conscience is a good pillow.
AMERICAN PROVERB Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
AMERICAN PROVERB But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights,...
AMERICAN THEATRE movement for movement's sake.
AMERICAN THEATRE Jeremy Irons of ballet.
AMERICAN THEATRE I actually quit ballet when I was 14,
AMERICAN THEATRE The human aspect has to be minimized, but what do you do? All we can give back to the audience is fr...
AMERICAN THEATRE I think there's an argument that can be made to say they should be more lenient,
AMERICAN SOCIETY Oh, no, we shouldn't be promoting the use of alcohol, because that will only lead to a life of waste...
AMERICAN SOCIETY I'm up there in age and my heart is content at this age. The mind and the body work together and mus...
AMERICAN SOCIETY Being able to function. Being at the peak of what you can do or at the peak of what you think you sh...
AMERICAN SOCIETY I've done everything I could to stay out of (the Gonzalez case), to avoidpoliticizing it, but I do b...
AMERICAN SOCIETY That costs the airlines money, so they're very perturbed about it,
AMERICAN SOCIETY People just feel that travel is not something that's a luxury anymore. It's a necessity, and particu...
AMERICAN SOCIETY Caring for Older Americans: The Future of Geriatric Medicine.
AMERICAN SOCIETY We should be very cautious not to mislead the public that these two papers demonstrate that we no lo...
AMERICAN SOCIETY I can go on a Twinkie diet and if it's restricted enough I will lose weight,
AMERICAN SOCIETY It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
AMERICAN PROVERBS The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
AMERICAN PROVERBS It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
AMERICAN PROVERBS A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
AMERICAN PROVERBS Never swap horses crossing a stream.
AMERICAN PROVERBS The early bird gets the worm.
AMERICAN PROVERBS We've had a lot more teens hanging out at the new library, ... The kids really like the new computer...
AMERICAN LIBRARY Concluding [the authors] that communism's death toll stands at 85 to 100 million, they wonder forcef...
AMERICAN LIBRARY The World War I Years: America Becomes a World Power.
AMERICAN LIBRARY Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
AMERICAN LIBRARY When it comes to exercise equipment, you really do get what you pay for. The low-end stuff won't hav...
AMERICAN COUNCIL Global Learning for All.
AMERICAN COUNCIL What Makes Racial Diversity Work in Higher Education.
AMERICAN COUNCIL Many people sit in front of a computer all day while at the office. When they go to work out, they a...
AMERICAN COUNCIL [Tulane students are finding ways to apply to other schools, as well, for the fall semester.] The st...
AMERICAN COUNCIL We do not believe that you can ask people who have been victims of an ongoing repression and most re...
AMERICAN COUNCIL If you're tired of the health club scene, and time, convenience and privacy are important to you, th...
AMERICAN COUNCIL I think this is essentially a US matter, but can you imagine the effect of this case on Filipino Ame...
AMERICAN CITIZEN [Hirsen told O'Reilly during their Tuesday night] Factor ... drowns out legitimate discourse.
AMERICAN CITIZEN Don't Get Too Comfortable
AMERICAN CITIZEN My decision to do this has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with my profession. It ...
AMERICAN CITIZEN I think this is essentially a US matter, but can you imagine the effect of this case on Filipino A...
AMERICAN CITIZEN Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
AMERICAN PROVERB You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too
AMERICAN PROVERB If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
AMERICAN PROVERB If you look back, you'll soon be going that way.
AMERICAN PROVERB If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be a part of someone else's.
AMERICAN PROVERB Hope is the nurse of misery.
AMERICAN PROVERB He that lives on hope will die fasting.
AMERICAN PROVERB Each day provides its own gifts.
AMERICAN PROVERB Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
AMERICAN PROVERB Diligence is the mother of good luck.
AMERICAN PROVERB Character is what you are in the dark.
AMERICAN PROVERB Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
AMERICAN PROVERB Advice is least heeded when most needed.
AMERICAN PROVERB A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
AMERICAN PROVERB A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
AMERICAN PROVERB A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
AMERICAN PROVERB A good son makes a good husband.
AMERICAN PROVERB A contented mind is a continual feast.
AMERICAN PROVERB Never swap horses crossing a stream.
AMERICAN PROVERB If you can't lick 'em, join 'em
AMERICAN PROVERB Too many cooks spoil the broth
AMERICAN PROVERB For want of a nail the kingdom was lost
AMERICAN PROVERB A miss is as good as a mile
AMERICAN PROVERB Little pitchers have big ears
AMERICAN PROVERB People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
AMERICAN PROVERB It never rains, but it pours
AMERICAN PROVERB No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
AMERICAN PROVERB Crap or get off the pot
AMERICAN PROVERB Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked
AMERICAN PROVERB Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
AMERICAN PROVERB There are plenty of fish in the sea
AMERICAN PROVERB The worm turns
AMERICAN PROVERB In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.
AMERICAN PROVERB I'd rather be dead than red
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't bite more than you can chew.
AMERICAN PROVERB No good Indian but a dead Indian
AMERICAN PROVERB A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
AMERICAN PROVERB You made your bed, now lie in it
AMERICAN PROVERB The bad workman blames his tools
AMERICAN PROVERB Silence is golden; speech is silver
AMERICAN PROVERB You can't unscramble an egg
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't judge a book by its cover
AMERICAN PROVERB Take the bitter with the sweet
AMERICAN PROVERB It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on the job
AMERICAN PROVERB Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot.
AMERICAN PROVERB Practice what you preach
AMERICAN PROVERB All's fair in love and war.
AMERICAN PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business
AMERICAN PROVERB If you want anything done, give it to the busy man
AMERICAN PROVERB A good dog deserves a good bone
AMERICAN PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
AMERICAN PROVERB race to the bottom.
AMERICAN STUDIES We can have a dialogue on equal basis on all the questions, all the issues -- including human rights...
AMERICAN STUDIES [He achieved his greatest recognition with his most controversial book,] Love and Death in the Ameri...
AMERICAN STUDIES I've done everything I could to stay out of (the Gonzalez case), to avoid
politicizing it, but I...
AMERICAN SOCIETY I think this
is essentially a US matter, but can you imagine the effect of
this case on ...
AMERICAN CITIZEN Where there's smoke, there's fire
AMERICAN PROVERB Every dog is allowed one bite
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't give up the ship
AMERICAN PROVERB The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
AMERICAN PROVERB Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.
AMERICAN PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
AMERICAN PROVERB Eat, drink, and be merry. For tomorrow we die.
AMERICAN PROVERB The pen is mightier than the sword
AMERICAN PROVERB Easy come, easy go
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't upset the apple cart
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
AMERICAN PROVERB You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear
AMERICAN PROVERB The cobbler should stick to it's last
AMERICAN PROVERB Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe
AMERICAN PROVERB What's good for the goose is good for the gander
AMERICAN PROVERB It's never too late to mend your ways
AMERICAN PROVERB You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
AMERICAN PROVERB I am just as good as you are, and a damned sight better
AMERICAN PROVERB A dog is a man's best friend
AMERICAN PROVERB If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's
AMERICAN PROVERB I believe tax cuts should be responsible and targeted, ... This year, Congress is working on last ye...
AMERICAN SOCIETY The only thing a heated argument ever produced is coolness
AMERICAN PROVERB I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't whiz on the electric fence
AMERICAN PROVERB You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.
AMERICAN PROVERB It takes two to tango
AMERICAN PROVERB Once bitten, twice shy
AMERICAN PROVERB You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
AMERICAN PROVERB Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it
AMERICAN PROVERB If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't change horses while crossing a stream.
AMERICAN PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
AMERICAN PROVERB He who hesitates is lost
AMERICAN PROVERB From little acorns mighty oaks do grow
AMERICAN PROVERB Seeing is believing
AMERICAN PROVERB A Monday morning quarterback
AMERICAN PROVERB Bad news travels fast
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen
AMERICAN PROVERB You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away
AMERICAN PROVERB Make love, not war
AMERICAN PROVERB The bigger they come the harder they fall
AMERICAN PROVERB It takes a thief to catch a thief
AMERICAN PROVERB Actions speak louder than words
AMERICAN PROVERB The bad gardener quarrels with his rake
AMERICAN PROVERB Nothing ventured, nothing gained
AMERICAN PROVERB It isn't over until the fat lady sings
AMERICAN PROVERB Love many, trust a few, and learn to paddle your own canoe.
AMERICAN PROVERB The one who pays the piper calls the tune
AMERICAN PROVERB A friend who shares is a friend who cares.
AMERICAN PROVERB. No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only a...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongd...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB What the people believe is true.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Pray to understand what man has forgotten.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB