Native Soil Quotes

‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.

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

This is the land of our fathers; we love it ... and on no account whatever will we consent to sell one foot ... neither by exchange or otherwise.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.