N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nations that pay for outcomes and health actually spend a lower percentage of GDP, and they have better outcomes. And so the Affordable Care Act is starting to make that migration, but we've got to keep down that path, and we'll improve outcomes and reduce cost.”
“Nations that renounce ambition are nations with no future.”
“Nations touch at their summits.”
“Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.”
“Nations who are proud of their guns, tanks, missiles etc. are deprived of humanity!”
“Nations who do not believe in their own strength and who lack self-confidence always wait for a savior; their eyes are always looking for a Noah's Ark coming from the horizon!”
“Nations who respect the Mother Nature deserve all kinds of respect!”
“Nations whose libraries are empty have always been at the bottom of the rankings in history!”
“Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.”
“Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned”
“Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.”
“Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.”
Source: Cato. Dialogue on medals. Essay on Virgil's Georgies. Poemata. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond; an opera. Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
“Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up.”
“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”
“Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.”
“Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the ardour with which the Anglo-Americans prosecute commercial enterprise, the advantages which befriend them, and the success of their undertakings, I cannot refrain from believing that they will one day become the first maritime power of the globe. They are born to rule the seas, as the Romans were to conquer the world.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.”
“Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.”
Source: Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud
“Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.”
“Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.”
Source: Biography of M. F.
“Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.”
Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.”
Source: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
“Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.”
Source: Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini
“Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.”
“Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.”
“Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.”
“Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.”
“Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.”
“Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial.”
“Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.”
Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.”
“Native Americans cured Cartier's men of scurvy near Montreal in 1535. They repaired Francis Drake's Golden Hind in California so he could complete his round-the-world voyage in 1579. Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Pacific Northwest was made possible by tribe after tribe of American Indians, with help from two Shoshone guides, Sacagawea and Toby, who served as interpreters. When Admiral Peary discovered the North Pole, the first person there was probably neither the European American Peary nor the African American Matthew Henson, his assistant, but their four Inuit guides, men and women on whom the entire expedition relied. Our histories fail to mention such assistance. They portray proud Western conquerors bestriding the world like the Colossus at Rhodes.
So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say "discover," they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.”
“Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.”
“Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.”
“Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they were being exterminated and driven off their land, Whites were collecting assets.”
“Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.”
“Native Chinese records aver that on the 18th day of the 6th moon, 1590, snow fell one summer night from the midst of the moon. The flakes were like fine willow flowers on shreds of silk.”
Source: The Old Lore of the Moon: Lunar Folklore & Folk Wisdom
“Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.”
“Native families are like onions—rough-looking on the outside. People want to people the outer layers and toss them away, as if they have no value. But each layer is protecting the next, down to its innermost core. That green center, where the onion is sweetest, that's the Native child. Surrounded by layers of family and community.”
Source: Sisters in the Wind
“native nostalgia, a prelude to the now
when will we ever feel safe in the Mother City's nest? Neng? Nini?
i long for a time when harmony between
humans and nature was not a utopian dream scattered by the patter of raindrops that threaten rooftops.
the rain that is no longer euphony or lullaby to
hush you to slumber.
a storm is fast approaching, stay on higher
ground, dig up trenches and unclog the drains
wailing voices choking within the Mother City
echo code red, declare this a national
emergency
belligerent tempest (s) warn of a time to
come, a treaty between the mortals and
the natural environment is needed!
displaced, confused, we've become
strangers to the Mother City
are you going to listen to the wind, or are
you going to wait for floating lilies to
deliver seeds of condolences?”
“Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.”
“Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.”
“Native peoples do not look for salvation from worlds beyond. They need no alternate reality, because the mortal world and the spirit world are the same. This Earth is heaven, hell and purgatory; but most importantly, it is home. The greatest of spiritual mysteries may be revealed just beyond the front door, in the life of a community.”
Source: Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion
“Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.”
“Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.”
Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
“Native tears form kohinoor on the crown, blood is but cologne to the colonizer.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations