Native Place Quotes:

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 17 July 1771, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 141

topic: Men, Wish, Native Place, Lurking

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

- Chief Seattle

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Peace, Indian, Indian Wisdom

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

- Sitting Bull

topic: Native American, Men, White, Indian, Lakota

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

- Sitting Bull

source: "I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians". Book by Virginia Armstrong, Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.

topic: Heart, Men, Eagles, Indian, Indian Wisdom

Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: www.rt.com

topic: Creating, Issues, Islands, Large Scale, Peace Treaties

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

- Emma Goldman

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

topic: Individual, Social, Authority, Native Place

To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland.

- Kim Il-sung

topic: Korea, People, Inspire, Motherland, Native Place

Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

topic: Nature, Men, No Friends, Native Place, I Have No Friends

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.

- Edward Said

source: Edward W. Said (2013). “Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays”, p.212, Granta Books

topic: Home, Sadness, Thinking, Rift, True Home

But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

topic: Daughter, Flower, Blood, Cursing, Withered

[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.

- Olaf Stapledon

source: Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr

topic: Strong, Lying, Struggle, Place And Time, Native Place

It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground...A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."

- Rudolf Steiner

topic: Home, Men, Intimate Relationships, Native Place