Nathaniel Greene may refer to:
- Nathanael Greene (1742–1786), American Revolutionary War general
- Nathaniel Greene (journalist) (1797–1877), American journalist
- Nathaniel Greene Foster (1809–1869), American politician, lawyer, and military officer
- Major General Nathanael Greene (Brown), statue of Nathanael Greene by Henry Kirke Brown
Famous quotes containing the words nathaniel and/or greene:
“There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,—why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,—that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Sovran of beauty! like the spray she grows,
Compassed she is with thorns and cankered bower.
Yet were she willing to be plucked and worn,
She would be gathered, though she grew on thorn.”
—Robert Greene (1558?–1592)