Quotes About Birthplace

As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.

Kollywood is my parent film industry. It was here that I was born as an actress and grew as an artist.

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.

I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.

I was born in New Hampshire, moved to Tennessee when I was 9, and lived there through high school, then went to school at College of Charleston, so definitely a lot of pieces of the South there.

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

No. I wanted nothing of that. I sank myself deeper into the stronger current where all such outreaching mingled into a vast joining. Sometimes I thought it the birthplace of dreams and intuitions. At other times I thought of it as a repository of all the folk who had gone before us, and perhaps even those to come after. It was a place where sorrows and joys were equal, where life and death were just the stitches on each side of a quilt. It was nepenthe." p. 465

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The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always.

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of ROMANCE OF THE ROSE was born

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life.

I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?"

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born there, nothing was really foreign to me. I think what I saw strange coming to L.A. was that a lot of people are a little bit two-faced. In Puerto Rico, you don't get that.

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

My dad was born in Desertmartin at the foot of Slieve Gallion.

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

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

I was born in Swansea in the Principality of Wales in September 1934 and named Clive William John Granger. The 'William John' names were traditional Granger boy's names, and my mother liked the name Clive because some popular musician at the time had it.

My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.