Native Land quotes:

Send

One's native land! There should one live! There die! -- Jules Verne
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
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 land. -- Emma Goldman
Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land. -- William Pennington
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 make sensitive human beings feel at home. -- Emma Goldman
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. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch. -- Bill Bryson
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast. -- Saint Ambrose
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 only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. -- Donald Cargill
My native land, good night! -- Lord Byron
--
One's native land!?there should one live! there die! -- Jules Verne
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. -- Euripides
I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy. -- Andrea Bocelli
The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. -- Alexander Hamilton
There is no place in this world warmer than our native land. -- Khem Veasna
Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers? -- Friedrich Schiller
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land. -- Seneca the Younger
The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. -- J. Frank Dobie
What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land. -- Charles Kuralt
Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land! -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. -- Walter Scott
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. -- Democritus
Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night! -- Lord Byron
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 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
My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land. -- James Stephens
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. -- William Cowper
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 me. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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 cherishes generous treatment. -- Confucius
For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain. -- Dan Maffei
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont. -- Lady Bird Johnson
I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new. -- Lord Byron
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 native land of the hypocrite. -- Oscar Wilde
Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.' -- Michael Franti
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 mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark. -- John Dryden
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 of all the rest, I love thee most. -- Abraham Coles
I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.] -- Ovid

Send