Birthplace Quotes

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  • Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

  • Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

  • Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

    Book   Eye   Intelligent  
  • Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.

    FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 10, 2011
  • It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

    Sweet   Two   Knowing  
    Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.30, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But once you've found a solution, there is no need to continue the adaptive behavioral parrying, which is bioenergetically very expensive to maintain. We are built to find answers, then hang on to them as long as we can.

    Long   East   Needs  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.

    "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.
  • Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

    Sports   White   Surfing  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

  • Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.

  • Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

    William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.84
  • At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

    Race   India   World  
  • The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

  • It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • God said to Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee." God says to man: "First, get you out of your country, that means the dimness you have inflicted on yourself. Then out of your birthplace, that means out of the dimness your mother inflicted on you. After that, out of the house of your father, that means out of the dimness your father inflicted on you. Only then will you be able to go to the land that I will show you"

    Country   Mother   Father  
    Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.56, Psychology Press
  • I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

    War   Party   Self  
    Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.193, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

    Home   Character   Eye  
    Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.157
  • 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!

    "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.
  • Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

    Purpose   Tests   Spirit  
  • My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

    "Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia" by William Saroyan, 1936.
  • The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

  • Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

    Long   Skins   Vineyards  
    Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.45, Bantam
  • You don’t sound very patriotic,” observed Tessa. “Weren’t you just reminiscing about the mountains?” “Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—” “You’re in a charming temper, aren’t you, William?” interrupted Jem, though there was no edge to his voice.

    Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
  • Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

  • To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

    Source: classic.esquire.com
  • Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—

    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
  • Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

    Twitter post from Mar 29, 2016
  • Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

    Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated
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