Native Character Set

Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:

“The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)

“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)