Quotes About Birthplace

I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

I was born in Berkeley, California, in 1976, and grew up in and around Oakland and the Bay Area.

I've accepted the city into which I was born in the same way I've accepted my body and my gender.

Said, who was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1935, was fond of T. S. Eliot's idea that reality could not be deprived of the other echoes that inhabit the garden.

They were saddened that [Rawlins] was not coming back but they said that a man leaves much when he leaves his own country. They said that it was no accident of circumstance that a man be born in a certain country and not some other and they said that the weathers and seasons that form a land form also the inner fortunes of men in their generations and are passed on to their children and are not so easily come by otherwise.

Los Altos house with the garage where Apple was born In the Homestead High yearbook, 1972

The Los Altos house with the garage where Apple was born

Franklin's birthplace on Milk Street in Boston, across from the Old South Church.

Noel had been born in Folkestone, a city in southeastern England, and he had already spent a lifetime in pubs and around cranky publicans.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

The actual cabin fell into disrepair probably before Lincoln became president. According to research by D. T. Pitcaithley, the new cabin, a hoax built in 1894, was leased to two amusement park owners, went to Coney Island, where it got commingled with the birthplace cabin of Jefferson Davis (another hoax), and was finally shrunk to fit inside a marble pantheon in Kentucky, where, reassembled, it still stands.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

A girl born in Drumchapel in Glasgow has just as much right to good health and the opportunities provided by a good education as a Surrey stockbroker's son.

We carved it in stone: no matter the place of your birth or the hue of your skin, you can live in California in safety, dignity, and, yes, sanctuary.

The earth is our birthplace, yet for millions of us, it feels strangely foreign.

Were we not standing atop the birthplace of a certain kind of religious nationalism? Zion lay all around us. See where the Prophet left this earth, where Christ rose from the dead, where the Messiah would, finally, appear. Which of us, in this war, was not Judas to someone?

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

I was born in Oklahoma.

Foreigners, here it is, this is my homeland, here I was born and here live my dreams.

There's a lot of bad influences in Cleveland, I'm starting to think. It's a shithole, you know? I think if I'd been born in a nicer place I wouldn't be such a fuckup.