Quotes About Birthplace

Lope Félix de Vega Carpio nació el 25 de noviembre de 1562, en Madrid, en la Puerta de Guadalajara (parte de la calle Mayor comprendida entre la Cava de San Miguel y la calle de Milaneses) y fué bautizado el 6 del siguiente diciembre en la hoy desaparecida parroquia de San Miguel de los Octoes.

The place where you are happy is better than the place you were born.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

To me, city-dwellers are The Dispossessed, unfortunates who have been deprived of every creature's right to territory. There is a sense in which country folk, however impoverished, own their birthplace and all the land around it that can be covered in a long day's tramp – the natural, immemorial limit to the territory of a human being.

I think the first time I watched 'Aladdin' was when I was still in Egypt, because I was born in Cairo.

Los estudiantes acaban de descubrir una característica reveladora de la economía mundial: nuestra fortuna económica está determinada principalmente por dónde (en qué país) nacemos y, sólo de manera secundaria, por el lugar que ocupamos en la escala de distribución de ingresos.

I think if I hadn't been born in a pit village I'd have been part of a dramatic society.

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

I was born in Pizzoferrato, a little village of 1000, in the Abruzzi region of Italy.

I was born in Pennsylvania, but for most of my childhood, my family lived in Lynchburg, Virginia.

I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My dad always thought Europe was a bit too small for him. He wanted to see the United States... The typical immigrant story. He wanted a better life for his children, too. He always tried to get the visa, and it didn't come up.

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

I was born in Sri Lanka.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

I'm from New York. I was born in Long Island.

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

The border remains a fluid, mutating, stubbornly troubling, enthusiastically lethal region. Perhaps it's not a region at all. Maybe it's just an idea nobody can agree on. A conversation that never ends, even when it becomes an argument and all participants kick over the table and spill their drinks and stomp out of the room. I was born there.

Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a second-rate writer like (Ernest Hemingway). (John Steinbeck) is important due to American guns. Had (John Dos Passos) and (William Faulkner) been born in Paraguay or in Turkey, who`d read them?

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

He lived in the ancient house where he was born, at the bottom of a vallon in the hills, three hundred meters from Massacan, surrounded by a pine wood, the silence of solitude, the odor of resin, and the perfume of rosemary.

No, in Ireland." "And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing.

She had been born in the West, where white and violet mountains lift in pursuit of the delicate tall clouds, and tumbleweed rolls in pursuit of the horizon.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.