Noun
the country where you were born
Source: WordNetThe fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. Jerome
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. Democritus
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me. Alexis de Tocqueville
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land. Emma Goldman
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen. Peter Ackroyd
Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten. Latin Proverb