Famous quotes containing the words native and/or american:
“The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed,
If thou the spirit give by which I pray;
My unassisted heart is barren clay,
Which of its native self can nothing feed;”
—Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474–1564)
“The American ideal is youth—handsome, empty youth.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)