The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. G. K. Chesterton
One might expect bad behaviour from existentialists – indeed that was what existentialism was all about, was it not? – but to find this happening on one's own doorstep was a shock. Alexander McCall Smith
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and, by cautious experimentation, to prove how it works? What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land? Aldo Leopold
One does not spy on one's own people,” ZeSpiole informed him. "One has, rather, conduits of communication which lead to the common man. Iain Banks
It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one. Celia Green
One is one's own master on one's own stove. Russian Proverb