Native Nations

Famous quotes containing the words native and/or nations:

    The language I have learnt these forty years,
    My native English, now I must forgo,
    And now my tongue’s use is to me no more
    Than an unstringèd viol or a harp.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)