Modern Native American

Famous quotes containing the words modern, native and/or american:

    “Civilization is a conspiracy.... Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.”
    —John Buchan (1875–1940)

    “We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.”
    —Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)

    “... his voice and hands,
    Within whose warm spring rain of loving care
    Each dwells some twenty seconds. Now, dear child,
    What’s wrong, the deep American voice demands,
    And, scarcely pausing, goes into a prayer
    Directing God about this eye, that knee.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)