Quotes About Birthplace

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

I was born on Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, but we moved around a lot.

I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's a bit like anyone: where you're brought up, you have an irresistible attraction to that place; it defines who you are.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

I was born in Nepal, I grew up in the Gurkhas, and I became a man in the SBS.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

Yes, there's Montreal, but my real home, where my kids were born, where I became a citizen of this country, is New Jersey.

I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.

I was born in New York City speaking French at home.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.' You have no idea of the competition.

Mentre aspettavo mi guardavo intorno: l'intonaco scabro nella luce, un ciuffo d'erba sul terrazzo contro il cielo, il gran silenzio meridiano. Nello strepito del carro che s'allontanava, pensai che quelli per Oreste erano luoghi familiari, c'era nato e cresciuto, dovevano dirgli chi sa che. Pensai quanti luoghi ci sono nel mondo che appartengono così a qualcuno, che qualcuno ha nel sangue e nessun altro li sa.

This world's a treasure, Donald. But she's been telling us to leave for a while now. Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.

Aztlán: The mythical birthplace of the Aztecs. Chicanos use this term to describe the southwest United States. Chicanos are idiots. Citlali says Aztlán is somewhere in Ohio.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too. It only makes sense to love the place where you were born - especially the United States of America. But as blacks fell for the lies of socialism and communism, they also fell away from love.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.

Any Marine veteran can reach back thirty or forty years and summon the names of his drill instructors. Flying in a Marine jet over Parris Island, Brig. Gen. Randy West looks down on the swampy land and simply says , "I was born there.

I remember, I rememberThe house where I was born,The little window where the sunCame peeping in at morn.

I'm extremely grateful I was born in North Korea. If that didn't happen, there's no way I could understand other people's pain.

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.