Native Quotes - Page 27

• The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religion, Soil, Opinion

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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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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• That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, where-ever it is capable of being exerted, is to be dreaded more than the plague.

  St. George Tucker

  Mean, President, United States

  Sir William Blackstone, St. George Tucker, Edward Christian (1803). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference, to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States; and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Five Volumes. With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connected View of the Laws of Virginia, as a Member of the Federal Union”, p.323

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• 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

  Good Night, Country, Farewell

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Country, Sight, Land

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.43

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• The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

  Hugh Blair

  Clouds, Giving, Cheerful

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

  Hugh Blair

  Reflection, Men, Views

  Hugh Blair (1824). “Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author”, p.117

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• The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

  John Norman

  Wall, Enemy, Stranger

  John Norman (2011). “Outlaw of Gor: Gor”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

  John Oates

  Moving, Native American, Soul

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• My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mirrors, Flying, Black

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.414, Vintage

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• 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

  Land, Independence, Three

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• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Gratitude, Morning

  Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.59

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• I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name. I have quite a few friends who are Native Americans. And even if I didn’t have Native American friends, the name of the team is disrespectful.

  Mike Carey

  Team, Native American, Names

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• Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before.

  Martha Beck

  Home, Heart, World

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• We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

  Gary Chapman

  Trying, Doe, Want

  Gary Chapman (2015). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages for Men Set”, p.18, Moody Publishers

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• My native land, good night!

  Lord Byron

  Good Night, Land, Night

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.18

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• Once you identify and learn to speak your spouse’s primary love language, I believe that you will have discovered the key to a long-lasting, loving marriage. Love need not evaporate after the wedding, but in order to keep it alive most of us will have to put forth effort to learn a secondary love language. We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

  Gary Chapman

  Believe, Keys, Order

  Gary Chapman (2015). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages for Men Set”, p.18, Moody Publishers

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• You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

  Paul Johnson

  Mass Transit, Arizona, Looks

  "You Know You're an Arizona Native, When". Book by Don Dedera, 1993.

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• I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Distance, Party

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• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  Wade Davis

  Lonely, Children, Fate

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• Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

  Michael Tippett

  Art, Native American, Score

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• Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!

  Thomas Campbell

  Years, Sea, Battle

  Thomas Campbell (1854). “The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand”, p.93

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• It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

  Virgil

  Wind, Land, Sky

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• The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

  John Locke

  Children, Men, Thinking

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Growing Up, Native American, Illinois

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2005.

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