Native Quotes & Sayings

Native Quotes & Sayings

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The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco. - J. Russell Lynes



So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. - Oliver Goldsmith



Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand! - Sir Walter Scott



My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. - Sir Walter Scott



My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! - Robert Burns



Do not use that foreign word - ideals. We have that excellent native word - lies. - Henrik Johan Ibsen



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



Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. - Mary Wollstonecraft



And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. - Lord Alfred Tennyson