Native Character Set

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

    When I think of my own native land,
    In a moment I seem to be there;
    But alas! recollection at hand
    Soon hurries me back to despair.
    William Cowper (1731–1800)

    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)

    I had to prosper good and punish evil.
    You changed all that. You set me free to reign.
    You are the Emancipator of your God,
    And as such I promote you to a saint.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)