Native Land Quotes

46 Native Land quotes by 42 unique authors

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.… — Bill Bryson
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… — Donald Cargill
The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would… — Nikola Tesla
It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their… — Isak Dinesen
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the… — Alistair Cooke
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. — George Bernard Shaw
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land. — Seneca the Younger
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates… — Michael Leunig
That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish… — Thomas Jefferson
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we… — Peter Ackroyd
O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up… — Abraham Coles
And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the… — John Dryden
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er… — Walter Scott
The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made… — E. Stanley Jones
The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave… — Robert Charles Winthrop
My days â€“ the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood â€“ have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this… — Daniel O'Connell
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover… — Victor Cousin
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. — Euripides

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