Native Land – Quotes

What greater grief than

What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land. Euripides

Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent… It is by ‘black Power’ that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled ‘race’ are popularly depicted. Yet … Read more

In the true sense

In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. Emma Goldman

The individual whose vision

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

A man\\’s love for

A man’s love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father’s graves. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I see that I

I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety … Read more

Cling to thy native

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers? Friedrich Schiller

Strike-for your altars and

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land! Fitz-Greene Halleck

I cannot but be

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

To a wise man,

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. Democritus