Famous quotes containing the words native, american and/or words:
“The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists itthis is the native tendency of the amoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Old age begins in the nursery, and before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, I want something which I never saw before and I wish I was not I.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I am filling the room
with the words from my pen.
Words leak out of it like a miscarriage.
I am zinging words out into the air
and they come back like squash balls.
Yet there is silence.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)