Native Land Quotes - Page 4

• 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, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Flower, Sea, Land

  Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”

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• 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

  Land, Feelings, Mind

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1979). “Journeys to England and Ireland”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

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• You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Country, Sweet

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.376, Library of America

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• The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

  St. Jerome

  Men, Land, Facts

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Land, Vision, World

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has tobring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work.

  Stefan Zweig

  Home, Creativity, Discovery

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