Quotes About Homeland

Every homeland constitutes a sacred geography. For those who have left it, the city of their childhood and adolescence always becomes a mythical city.

We are women without a voice, Ona states calmly. We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in. We are Mennonites without a homeland. We have nothing to return to, and even the animals of Molotschna are safer in their homes than we women are. All we women have are our dreams—so of course we are dreamers.

Like all empires, the harsh and violent forms of control that have been used on the "wretched of the earth," have migrated back to the homeland in a time of decay to keep the population in check. The tyranny we have imposed on others is now being imposed on us.

In time, my mother decided she wanted to return to Spain.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in security.

There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

I love Mexico.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

Once a strategic afterthought, homeland defense has become an urgent duty. For most of our history, America felt safe behind two great oceans. But with the spread of technology, distance no longer means security.

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

Patria es donde están nuestros muertos

Patria es donde están nuestros muertos», solía decir Carme.

No sólo perdía a Rosa, su madre, los amigos, el trabajo y su pasado. Perdía su patria. —Mi país..., mi país... —sollozó.

Our homeland is where our dead are buried.

I was born in New Zealand, and I was raised in Australia, and I'm very proud of that.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

I'm a Zionist who believes that every person has to have a country of their own.

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.

A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted as someone who's following a different path, who's moving into a different mode.