Native American Ancestry

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

“Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
Whatever they are....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“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)

“Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)