Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language… — Henry David Thoreau
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
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute… — Frantz Fanon
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
To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it… — Kim Il-sung
There is no place in this world warmer than our native land. — Khem Veasna
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge… — Rudyard Kipling
It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today. — Harrison Schmitt
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from… — George Eliot
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. — William Shakespeare
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something… — Daniel J. Boorstin
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. — Robert Breault
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it. — Woodrow Wilson
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. — Samuel Johnson
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. — Euripides
When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs. — Sophocles
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold — Isaac Watts
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later… — William Least Heat-Moon

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