Native Country Quotes:

I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.

- Crazy Horse

topic: Color, Circles, Tree, Indian, Tree Of Life

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

- Sitting Bull

topic: Country, Father, Native American, Great Native American, Native Country

Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

- Crazy Horse

topic: Blessing, Light, Color, Indian, Native American Indian

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.

- Crazy Horse

topic: Eye, Light, Salute, Indian, Light Within

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Mother, Country, Brother, American Indian, Great Native American

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

- Tecumseh

topic: Summer, Powerful, Men, Indian Tribes, Summer Sun

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Native American, Discovery, Would Be, Space Aliens, Discovery Of America

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

- Walter Scott

topic: Men, Land, Soul, Forfeit, Independence Day Patriotic

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

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

topic: Country, Self, Names, Swindlers, Native Country

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

source: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

topic: Country, Dream, Thinking, Inaccessible, Native Country

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

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.312

topic: Country, Attachment, America, Native Country

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

source: Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

topic: Country, Want, Messages, Native Country

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

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Country, Believe, Roots, Native Country

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

source: Source: www.viva-press.com

topic: Country, Children, Growing Up, Very Good Life, Native Country

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

source: David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1245, Delphi Classics

topic: Country, Hero, Mean, Celestial, Romulus

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.

- Anton Chekhov

source: Letter to his brother, G.M. Chekhov, January 1895.

topic: Country, Air, Healthy, Native Country

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

topic: Country, Heart, Men, Native Country

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

topic: Country, Running, Differences, Cross Country Running, Running Marathon

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

source: Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage

topic: Country, Home, Destiny, Hunted, Returning Home

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Country, Men, Cosmopolitanism, Native Country

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

source: Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Bluebeard”, Dial Press

topic: Country, War, Believe, Native Country

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

topic: Country, Lying, Longing, Native Country

Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity.

- Christopher Wren

source: Sir Christopher Wren (1942). “The City Churches, Vestry Minutes and Churchwardens' Accounts: St Mary's, Ingestre, Staffordshire; All Saints' and Sessions House, Northampton; the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; the Church and Almshouses, Farley, Wiltshire; the Sheldonian Theatre and Tom Tower, Oxford; the Market House, Abingdon, Berkshire; the Bridge, St. John's College, Cambridge; the New School, Eton; Kensington Palace; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Morden and Bromley Colleges; and the Five Tracts on Architecture by Sir Chr. Wren. Drawings, Engravings and Photographs ...”

topic: Country, Passion, People, Native Country

Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Country, Army, Europe, Emigration, Native Country

With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

- John Smith

source: John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

topic: Country, World, Causes, Extremity, Places In The World

You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone in a closet of your home. There`s a bright red button. You can push that button and presto all Negroes and Jews and all other colored people are instantly removed from the North American continent and returned to their native countries. You`d push it, wouldn`t you whitey? See? See? See? in the final analysis, you agree with me. But of course, you wouldn`t do antything to bring that scenario about, or any other scenario favorable to your Race.

- Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

topic: Country, Home, Heart, Scenarios, Native Country

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

- William Shenstone

source: William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.111

topic: Love, Country, Mean, Native Country

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

topic: Running, Country, Russia, Native Country