Our Native Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves… — U Thant
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. — William Shenstone
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens
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
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being… — Casey Miller
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
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
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all… — Edith Wharton
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in… — John Milton
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. — John Dryden
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of… — Wilma Mankiller
Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. — Ovid
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
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
There is no place in this world warmer than our native land. — Khem Veasna
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
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. — Euripides
From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America. — Jared Polis
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths… — Edmond Rostand
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to… — Alain de Botton

Who Wrote These Our Native Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 26 Our Native Quotes as follows: