Famous quotes containing the words foreign, proper and/or names:
“Man-in-seed, in seed-at-zero,
From the star-flanked fields of space,
Thunders on the foreign town
With a sand-bagged garrison....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“All things have their proper places and each should be put to its best use.”
—Chinese proverb.
“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
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