Famous quotes containing the words native, american and/or ancestry:
“O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)
“Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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