Famous quotes containing the words native american, native, american and/or words:
“The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with, and it must be so.”
—Native American elder. Quoted in Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, ch. 8 (written 1771-1790, published 1868)
“A native health and innocence
Within my bones did grow,
And while my God did all his glories show,
I felt a vigour in my sense
That was all spirit: I within did flow
With seas of life like wine;
I nothing in the world did know
But twas divine.”
—Thomas Traherne (16361674)
“Japanese mothers credit effort as the key determinant of a childs achievement in school, while American mothers name ability as the more important factor.”
—Perry Garfinkel (20th century)
“O he was fair,
even when I flung his words in his teeth,
he said,
I will soon be dead
I must learn from the young.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)