I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
Lucian Freud

I can speak Esperanto like a native.
Spike Milligan

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.
Donald Cargill

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.
Rick Renzi

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
Virginia Madsen

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.
John Walker Lindh

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
Terri Windling

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
Bob Greene

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
Juan Goytisolo

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
John H. Speke

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
Sean Bean

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
Joan Collins

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.
Rick Renzi

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
Susan Sarandon

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
Jim Harrison

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
Beau Bridges

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
Studs Terkel

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Franz Liszt