My Native Quotes
47 My Native quotes by 44 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.
— Andrea Bocelli
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
— Camille Claudel
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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
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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
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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
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I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.
— Alan Robinson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
— Walter Scott
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August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame.…
— Henry Rollins
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Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the…
— Anne Fortier
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I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican…
— Albert Pujols
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The whole world is my native land
— Seneca
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Today, I think more than ever before, we have to speak up and speak out to end discrimination based on sexual orientation. Dr. King used…
— John Lewis
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A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, And all unlooked-for from Your Highness' mouth. A dearer merit, not so deep a maim As to be…
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These My Native Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 47 My Native Quotes, led by these top contributors: