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Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

- Gene Simmons

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It`s not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

- Colin Firth

These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and , taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.

- Henry Hudson

Natives, we have a great custom of sharing, so great we shared our country with you.

- Ken Davis

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.

- Alan Grieve

We had been unable to persuade any of the natives of Wellington Valley to accompany us as guides, on our leaving that settlement.

- Alan Grieve

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

- Alan Grieve

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

- Alfred Chan

If a foreign country doesn`t look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.

- Allyson Twiggs

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

- Amy Uriell

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

- Andrew Corty

These natives,

- Angela Leisure

The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth

- Margaret Mead