Famous quotes containing the words native and/or born:
“The air of ones native country is the most healthy air.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“My idea is that the world outsidethe so-called modern worldcan only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive instinct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivorsthe one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poetsand to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)