I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Margaret George
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road. - Miyakahi Hayao

  2. While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high. - Whitney Otto

  3. The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have,... - Abigail Adams

  4. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao Tzu

  5. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. - Anita Desai

More Quotes By Margaret George
  1. So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

  2. Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

  3. The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

  4. I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on...

  5. Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Related Topics