Quotes About Birthplace
I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...
~ Desmond Tutu
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Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
~ Henry Grunwald
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What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
~ Leonard Cohen
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what is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. if Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
~ Leonard Cohen
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Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
~ Ian Mckellen
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I was born and raised in southern Utah.
~ Ally Condie
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It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.
~ Bria Vinaite
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I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
~ Little Milton
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This is getting depressing," Julieta said. "Let's go to the Casa Azul." The Blue House, in Coyoacán, a short walk from the restaurant, was where Frida Kahlo had been born, grew up, and lived with Diego Rivera.
~ Paul Theroux
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Jaime had been born in Ciudad Acuña in 1953. His father, a civilian worker at Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, started his shift early, and at noon crossed to Acuña for lunch and a siesta, then crossed back to the base until it was time to clock out.
~ Paul Theroux
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Crime begins in poverty; poverty in insufficiency of food; insufficiency in neglect of tilling of the soil. Without such tilling, man has no tie to bind him to the soil. Without such a tie he readily leaves his birthplace and his home. Then he is like the birds of the air or the beasts of the field. Neither battlemented cities nor deep moats, nor harsh laws, nor cruel punishments, can subdue this roving spirit that is strong within him.
~ Pearl S. Buck
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Hasn't everyone to be born somewhere,' Furlong said. 'Sure wasn't Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
~ Unknown
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Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
~ Oscar Isaac
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I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.
~ Maria Grazia Cucinotta
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I consider the recording studio where I was born.
~ Jimmy Iovine
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To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
~ James Henry Breasted
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I was actually born in Sacramento, in Rocklin, which is a suburb of Sacramento. I lived there for the first 8 years of my life.
~ Colby Covington
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I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.
~ Peter Jurasik
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I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
~ Douglas Wood
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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
~ Alice Ripley
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My identity walks the wires for me, all around the world. The body is now the afterthought. The birthplace, not the home.
~ David Levithan
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Und allmählich glaube ich, dass Geburtsorte Zufälle sind, dass alles ein Zufall ist. Aber wenn du das glaubst, wohin kannst du dann noch? Was machst du dann? Was ist dann überhaupt noch wichtig? Während Samad mit verstörtem Blick diese Dystopie beschrieb, merkte Irie beschämt, dass das Land der Zufälle sich für ihre Ohren wie das Paradies anhörte. Wie Freiheit.
~ Zadie Smith
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My boys are Cornish because they were all born there, but Im quite happy just to be an admirer.
~ Rick Stein
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I was born in Vizianagaram but have lived all my life in Chennai.
~ Vidyasagar
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