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Quotes About Birthplace

Patriotismo es la convicción de que tu país es superior a todo el resto sólo porque naciste en él
~ George Bernard Shaw
I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.
~ Henry Rollins
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
~ Hussein of Jordan
Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.'
~ Judy Blume
Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.
~ Conor Oberst
The truth about Obama's birthplace or Trump's relationship with Russia will never be established to the satisfaction of everyone, but Christians know truth of another order, that human beings are created in the image of God. They are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights--that is, unalienable claims on our respect. This is the truth that has made us free.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.
~ Mario Puzo
Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.
~ Mario Puzo
However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.
~ John Quincy Adams
I was born, bred, and lightly sautéed in and around New Orleans
~ Ellen DeGeneres
The first time I ever went to Hawaii, I was listening to island music, thinking, 'I could've been born here, and I'm pretty sure I would never play that.'
~ Chris Cornell
England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
~ Xavi
there is no denying luck. That you were born where you were. That you can choose. That you have the privilege of being bored. And do not have to leave your family. Or save your family." "What if I can't make up for that?" "Who says you have to? Sometimes living is all you have to do. Besides, you'd be surprised how you can save someone.
~ Gian Sardar
Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him.
~ Susanna Clarke
I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.
~ Daniel Woodrell
I was born in a tiny little enclave of terrified Jewish refugees, less than half a million of them, with no clear perspective of a future - hopes, yes, but no clear perspective.
~ Amos Oz
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.
~ Norman Wisdom
I was born in Mexico, I grew up in Mexico, and along the way, I learned to love Mexico. I think anyone who has stepped foot on this land - not to mention all Mexican people - will agree that it's not difficult to love Mexico.
~ Emiliano Salinas
I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.
~ Marco Rubio
In South Carolina listening to Gullah-speakers sing spiritials] As with bluegrass in Tennessee I am reminded once more of the extraordinary power that comes from music that is played in the place where it was born.
~ Stephen Fry
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
~ Jon Meacham
Žmogus turi gyvent kur gim? ir vaikas augo. Kitaip jis gyvena be kvap?, be gars?, be prisilietim? prisiminimo. Jis taip neturtingas, taip biednas. Be kvap?, be atospalvi?, be garso nuskamb?jim?, atoaidži?, be daikt? atsiskamb?jimo. Jis tada išauga ?šiaurus, piktas, aštrus, kaip peilis.
~ Jonas Mekas
I was born there and I moved away in 1990 when I was seven years old. After that my family moved away from there to Delhi and Mumbai. Now, only a handful of relatives live in Kashmir and we are constantly worried about them. It pains me to see that my birth-place is not a safe place to be in anymore.
~ Kunal Khemu