Native Character Set

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

    I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one’s native State;Mneither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

    Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    yes, set fire to frostbitten crops,
    drag out forgotten fruit
    to dance the flame-tango,
    the smoke-gavotte,
    to live after all....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)