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Our Native Quotes by Benjamin Lee Whorf
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- As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — 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… — Christopher Hitchens
- If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by… — Michael Leunig
- Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson
- What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins… — Peter Ackroyd
- There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when… — 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… — 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… — Wilma Mankiller
- Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. — Ovid