Quotes About Birthplace

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

We were married in the south of France because Gene loved France. If he could have been born French, he would have been - that was his dream.

The German Bundesliga is very interesting for me because I was born and brought up in Germany. I've never worked in the Bundesliga so that makes it more exciting.

I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!

My family are all Glasgow. I was born there. Govan. When it was very tough. The tenements. All that stuff.

Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.

I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.

I was actually born in Madison, Wisconsin, but raised in urban Missouri.

I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.

My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

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

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

But no one will weep for me or for them. They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time. I am a vampire. My name is Vittorio, and I write this now in the tallest tower of the ruined mountaintop castle in which I was born, in the northernmost part of Tuscany, that most beautiful of lands in the very center of Italy.

Instead, I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped onto the pavement, still warm from the previous day's sun. I started walking. In bare feet, I traveled upriver toward the place where I was born and will someday die. At that moment, if you had broken open my heart you could have looked inside and seen the thin white skeletons of one thousand salmon.

It's a Belgian beer, sweetie. Please tell me you've at least heard of it. (Blaine) Boy, I was born in Brussels and the last time I checked, this was my new homeland, America, not my birthplace. So you can either order an American-made beer or I'll bring you water and you can sit there and act all superior until you puke, okay? (Aimee)

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

I am inclined to notice the ruin in things, perhaps because I was born in Italy.

I love playing for Scotland; it's my country, it's where I was born, and every time I wear the badge it's a dream come true - goosebumps.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

My grandfather is from Peshawar; he was born there.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.