Native Character Set

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

    “At length they all to merry London came,
    To merry London, my most kindly nurse,
    That to me gave this life’s first native source;
    Though from another place I take my name,
    An house of ancient fame.”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “Consider the difference between looking and staring. A look is voluntary; it is also mobile, rising and falling in intensity as its foci of interest are taken up and then exhausted. A stare has, essentially, the character of a compulsion; it is steady, unmodulated, “fixed.””
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “He set the jug down slowly at his feet
    With trembling care, knowing that most things break;”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)