My Native Quotes

47 quotes by 44 authors

But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music,… — Georg Solti
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. — Edith Piaf
I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have… — Henry David Thoreau
Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad… — Jack Kerouac
I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold — Isaac Watts
On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid… — Masaharu Morimoto
Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state. — Gerald McRaney
In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National… — George Soros
I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy. — Andrea Bocelli
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. — Camille Claudel
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
The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more… — William Shakespeare
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. — Alan Robinson
What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks. — John Dryden
I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown,… — John Quincy Adams
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my… — Gloria Estefan
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. — Edith Sitwell
I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to… — Margaret George
This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter… — Anna Akhmatova

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