I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Even humiliated, the flesh is my only certainty. I can live only on it. The creature is my native land. This is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“Books were my church but even more my native land, my place of refuge, my DP camp. I was an exile early… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“For love is greater than any wind of words. And man, leaning at his window under the stars, is once again responsible… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“Composers do not remember this lost fatherland, but each of them remains all his life unconsciously attuned to it; he is delirious… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Mine’: what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whole being, which… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking up… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If any class deserves to be protected and assisted by the government, it is the class who are banished from their native… — Joseph O Connor Copy Share Image
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
“How are we to become native to this land?" (as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
“It has been supposed by Prof. Petrie that Queen Tii, the mother of Akhunaten, was of Mitannian (Armenian) origin, and that she… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think of being a European as of belonging to their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We… — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
“The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“The ideology of white supremacy, based on the subjugation of the black man in Rhodesia, denied the black man his full fundamental… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
