(160 quotes found)
“Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture?”
John McCarthy
“I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.”
Sean Bean
“No wiser or finer man lives than the one who understands that this earth is not to be owned. It is to be admired and cared for. We should be honored to call ourselves gardeners, not conquerors and owners.”
Bobby W. Miller
“[Ronaldo has returned to his native Madeira for the funeral and Fergie admitted he was not sure when the 20-year-old would be ready to return.] It's a difficult time for the boy, ... His dad was only 46. And it didn't help that Cristiano got the news when he was in Russia with Portugal.”
Fergie
“The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”
Robert Morley
“Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.”
Jared Diamond
“PDF is the richest content on the Web, and we're going to view it native,”
Steve Jobs
“Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic”
William Hazlitt
“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.”
Thomas Fuller
“What good I have comes from the pure air of your native Arezzo, and also because I sucked in chisels and hammers with my nurse's milk.”
Michelangelo