Native Character Set

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

    “The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed,
    If thou the spirit give by which I pray;
    My unassisted heart is barren clay,
    Which of its native self can nothing feed;”
    —Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474–1564)

    “People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

    “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)