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  • The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. -- William Shenstone
  • But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home. -- Georg Solti
  • The air of one's native country is the most healthy air. -- Anton Chekhov
  • That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings. -- Therese of Lisieux
  • There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely. -- Ellen Glasgow
  • I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to. -- Mary Robinson
  • It seemed to me that I had come for the first time close to the soil of my native country, and could feel for the first time running in my veins Russia's vastness, her potency, her strength. -- Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
  • I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy. The monarch offers identity across generations, and is a part of these roots and this native country. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
  • The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War." -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference? -- Jesse Owens
  • Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban setting which is nothing like when I was growing up and would be able to play barefoot in the street. But we have a very good life. -- Shakira
  • The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind. -- David Hume
  • I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country. -- Michael Hastings
  • People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. -- Amy Bloom
  • The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country. -- Robbie Robertson
  • Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. -- Stephen Ambrose
  • In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not. -- Bill Bryson
  • I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country. -- Nicolas Cage
  • I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans. -- Beau Bridges
  • I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America. -- Robert Duvall
  • If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. -- Lewis H. Lapham
  • 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
  • Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal. -- Severo Ochoa
  • I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out. -- Conrad Black
  • It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family. -- Rick Renzi
  • I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am not a native. It can be a struggle to make word count sometimes, but I will persevere! -- Seanan McGuire
  • On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized. -- Ken Salazar
  • The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.' -- Winona LaDuke
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  • I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache. -- Steve Martin
  • Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos. -- Greg Proops
  • They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million. -- David Letterman
  • It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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