Native American Ancestry

Famous quotes containing the words native, american and/or ancestry:

“O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“The Americans are violently oral.... That’s why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all—isn’t respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.”
—Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901)