“What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.” HeartStillsLeftFateSpringLiftsNativeScorn Author:John Dryden
“You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.” IfsStillsAbleAsksShareChildhoodYour ChildrenNativeUrgesJailVillageEntitled Book:Literary Lapses Source: Literary Lapses
“I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.” ChildrenStillsMountainWaveObstaclesNativeRave Book:The works of John Ruskin Source: The works of John Ruskin
“We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.” IfsThinkingWorldStillsSometimesStudentsResearchScientistOriginalsNativeCarriePeculiarPrerogative Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.” MindLooksMayStillsMightPeriodsWeaponsRussiaDestroyedErasBombsNativeElbowsAtomic BombTreachery Author:Curtis LeMay