Polish Settlers

Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or settlers:

“Use the stones of another hill to polish your own jade.”
—Chinese proverb.

“When old settlers say “One has to understand the country,” what they mean is, “You have to get used to our ideas about the native.” They are saying, in effect, “Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don’t want you.””
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)