Native Country Quotes

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

A good subject makes it his rule to prefer the public welfare to everything else, bravely to sacrifice his fortune, and his private interests, and even his life, for the preservation of the state; and to employ all his abilities and his industry to advance the honor, and to procure the advantage of his native country.

Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows... When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him... I have two mountains in that country... I want the Great Father to make no roads through them.

Freedom of discussion is characteristic of my native land.

The primary duty of Englishmen abroad and in the colonies is to attend at all times, the Service and Defense of their King and Native Country

Let us contend for all the rights guaranteed by the constitution of our native country.

They went to Phebus Oracle, which willed them to go unto theyr moother countrey and the coastes theyr stocke came from

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

My native land, good night!

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.

If you come from the Internet, as I do - I think of it as sort of my native country - there's a lot of great things happening on the Internet, but one of the things, one of the feelings you just can't escape is the sense that it's really hard to keep people's attention.

I still live in Sweden. That's my base. When I'm not working, I'm there.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

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

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.

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.

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

It is a great honor for me to be able to team up with the Jr. NBA to help continue develop basketball talent in my native Dominican Republic.

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

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.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.