My Native Land Quotes

#1. My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away

Black Hawk

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.

Kimberly McCreight

#5. I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#6. That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

Charles Kuralt

#8. I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land.

Debasish Mridha

#9. When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.

William Cowper

#10. I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.

Seneca.

#11. I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.

Banana Yoshimoto

#12. I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Juan Goytisolo

#13. O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

Abraham Coles

#14. Oran is exile and Tetuan is imprisonment. And since I am happier in Tetuan than in Oran, that means I prefer jail in my native land to freedom in exile.

Mohamed Choukri

#15. My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain ... There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

Chief Seattle

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

Walter Scott

#17. I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it ... and forget not those who have fallen during the night!

Jose Rizal

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

Donald Cargill

#21. My native land, good night!

Lord Byron

#22. I'm interested only in buying land in my native Hawaii so that one day I can live there and have the space to rescue animals.

Marie Helvin

#23. 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

#24. I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Margaret George

#25. I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

John Quincy Adams

#26. I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. My native land is all lands,
In no particular direction.
My monastery is the solitary mountains,
In no particular place.
My family is all the beings of the six realms.

SHABKAR

#28. I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.

Andrea Bocelli

#29. And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Oscar Wilde

#30. It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

Martin Delany

#31. Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#32. Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."

Bertrand Russell