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Quotes About Homeland

The importance of shared childhood food memories for bonding families together can be seen among expats who carry their 'homeland' with them in the form of ingredients smuggled in suitcases.
~ Bee Wilson
The Vatican preached that because the Jews had killed Jesus and rejected his teachings they were punished with the loss of their Holy Temple and the city of Jerusalem, as well as their homeland. In addition, they were damned to wander the earth forever as a divine warning to anyone who might refuse to obey the Church. (It is important to note that this teaching was categorically rejected and forbidden by the Second Vatican Council in 1962.) Baccio Pontelli, on the other hand, was not
~ Benjamin Blech
It is one thing to defend one's fatherland, another to attack people who themselves have a fatherland to defend. The spirit of conquest seeks to confuse these two ideas. Some governments, when they send their armies from one pole to the other, still talk about the defence of their hearths; one would think they call all the places to which they have set fire their hearths.
~ Benjamin Constant
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Where liberty is, there is my country.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.
~ Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Judea and Samaria can be a place of refuge for the nation.
~ Naftali Bennett
President Trump has made good on that pledge by fighting anti-Semitism at home and abroad and by standing shoulder to shoulder with Israel, the historical homeland and refuge for the Jewish people.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
'Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.
~ Michelle Malkin
I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
~ Nelson Mandela
I don't regret leaving 'Homeland,' because I wanted to work with the Bhatts. The dates were clashing, and I had to make a choice.
~ Ali Fazal
When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
~ Zuleikha Robinson
I'm relatively patriotic.
~ Zhou Qunfei
I'm basically a homegrown American.
~ Junior Seau
I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
~ Islom Karimov
There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters.
~ Raza Jaffrey
We in the Jewish Home party talk all the time about how Judea and Samaria are our homeland and they are part of Israel, so we are there to stay.
~ Ayelet Shaked
I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
~ Damian Lewis
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
~ Mandy Patinkin
Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back.
~ Tina Turner
The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I live in New York. I go to dance class; I do theatre. When things are sent to me, if I like them, I push to do them. And I would absolutely love to do anything that's part of my dad's homeland.
~ Sarita Choudhury
Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason