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Quotes About Birthplace

Be it then known that I was born on the family Estate in Devonshire, of the 10th day of August, 1690 (or in the new Gregorian Stile of Reckoning, the 20th of August)
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I'm from Dagestan, I'm born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.
~ Khabib Nurmagomedov
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.
~ Lynne Cheney
I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.
~ Milos Forman
I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
~ Campbell Brown
I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.
~ Jackie Collins
Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
~ Daddy Yankee
Spesso sorvolo in sogno il mio lontano paese ntale, Fengyangshu. Mi vedo avvicinarmi ogni giorno di più a un fiume dalle acque torbide, che scorre da est a ovest. Lo attraverso dirigendomi verso la riva sinistra, dove i campi di papavero creano una possente onda rossa che si gonfia con il vento, e mi afferra, mi solleva, e mi sospinge verso quella Fengyangshu dove sono nato.
~ Su Tong
Lo que importa es lo que somos capaces de llegar a ser como personas, no dónde hemos nacido. Nacer en un lugar puede determinar el mundo de las emociones íntimas, los sabores, olores, la música, el paisaje… pero ni quiero ni permito que nada de esto me determine como persona.
~ Julia Navarro
I was born in Indonesia and will die in Indonesia.
~ Suharto
An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
~ Italo Calvino
Ever since my childhood days in Kolkata, where I was born, I had seen my father interacting with Congressmen.
~ Bappi Lahiri
I have it on good authority that I was born in Utah.
~ Floyd Gottfredson
When I graduated from Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, I made my way back to San Diego, which is where I was born. And I saw WWE Divas on television, and I thought to myself, 'Oh my goodness, that is our calling.'
~ Brie Bella
Yeah, I was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. My parents lived in a little town called Eagle Grove. My mom taught high school and my dad was an instructor at the community college.
~ Katie Porter
Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
~ Queen Latifah
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.
~ Randall Kennedy
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.
~ Julie Andrews
I was born in Colorado Springs and I spent a lot of time there. I moved to Denver when I first started training in MMA full time.
~ Benson Henderson
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, many educated Europeans saw Greece not as the obscure, impoverished, and backward province of the Ottoman Empire it was, but as the birthplace of the most important ancient civilization, whose values shaped and defined modern Europe.
~ Stathis Kalyvas
It reassured me that, if nothing else in life, at least I'd fulfilled my earliest ambition simply to wander far afield, in spirit if not in space, from the place of my birth.
~ Michael Chabon
I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.
~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
~ Freddy Fender
I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.
~ Linda Evans