Famous quotes containing the words native american, native, american and/or words:
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (16451696)
“It isnt the oceans which cut us off from the worldits the American way of looking at things.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)