Native Land Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never… — Aristophanes
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an… — Madame de Stael
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man… — Confucius
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. — Democritus
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees,… — Thabo Mbeki
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no place in this world warmer than our native land. — Khem Veasna
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
I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy. — Andrea Bocelli
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
It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land — Martin Delany
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
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native… — Emma Goldman
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to… — Emma Goldman
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the… — Brian Aldiss
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
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the… — Oscar Wilde
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
Dreams are our only geographyâ€”our native land. — Dejan Stojanovic

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