Native Nations

Famous quotes containing the words native and/or nations:

    “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)

    “Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)