Birthplace Quotes:

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace.

- Frederic Chopin

topic: Birthplace

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

- Henry Anatole Grunwald

topic: Memories, Home, Birthplace, Birth Place

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Heart, Mind, Speech, Birthplace, Birth Place

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

- Sarah Turnbull

source: Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.30, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

topic: Sweet, Two, Knowing, Sweet Things, Birthplace

Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Heart, Color, Brain, Birthplace

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

- Brené Brown

source: "Can We Gain Strength From Shame?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

topic: Motivation, Fear, Inspiration, Daring Greatly, Birthplace

What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naïveté, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing the very depths of our little souls?

- Emma Goldman

source: Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.427, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Dream, Stars, Eye, Birthplace, Hopes Dreams

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

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Want, Awareness, Possibility, Birthplace

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

source: William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.84

topic: Destiny, Birth Place, Ties, Painful Thoughts, Birthplace

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Healthy, Assumption, Speak, Chatter, Birthplace

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

- Martin Luther

topic: Laughter, Heaven, Earth, Birthplace

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

- Marguerite Yourcenar

topic: Book, Eye, Intelligent, Birthplace

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"

- Martin Buber

source: Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.56, Psychology Press

topic: Country, Mother, Father, Birthplace

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.

- Og Mandino

topic: Long, Skins, Vineyards, Birthplace

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mother, Past, Men, Independence Day Patriotic, India Independence Day

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

- George Eliot

source: "Romola: Top Novelist Focus".

topic: Mother, Father, Men, Birthplace

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.

- King Hussein I

topic: Children, Together, Dawn, Living Together, Descendants

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.

- Robert Southey

source: Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.157

topic: Home, Character, Eye, Topography, Birthplace

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

- Lewis Mumford

source: Lewis Mumford (1983). “The golden day: a study in American literature and culture”, Greenwood Pub Group

topic: Discovery, Europe, Birth Place, Birthplace

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Nature, Children, Roots, Birthplace

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.

- John Medina

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Long, East, Needs, Ability To Adapt, Adaptive

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Character, Principles, Lines, Americanism, Descent

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

topic: Football, Heart, League, Birthplace, Birth Place

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

- Thomas Seward

topic: Cities, Rivals, Fame, Birthplace, Birth Place

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

- Sherman Alexie

topic: Dream, Lonely, Loneliness, Birthplace

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.

- Leonard Slatkin

topic: Doe, Cinema, Miles, Birthplace, Birth Place

They call themselves the Ku Klux Klan and they hate pretty much everyone who isn't like them. If you have the wrong color, religion, or birthplace, they don't like you. Around here it's mostly foreigners they hate.

- Clare Vanderpool

topic: Hate, Color, Ku Klux Klan, Birthplace

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

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

topic: Giving Up, Lying, Believe, Birthplace

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.

- Baz Luhrmann

source: Source: classic.esquire.com

topic: Tourists, Gas Stations, Honest, Birthplace, Freeways

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.

- Washington Irving

topic: Art, Struggle, Adversity, Vegetation, Birthplace

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)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Beer, Boys, Order, Belgians, Birthplace

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

- Teresa Heinz

source: "Teresa Heinz" by Julia Turner, www.slate.com. December 11, 2003.

topic: Real, Ideas, Political, Empty Promises, Birthplace

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

source: Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

topic: Patriotic, Dragons, Honor, Birthplace, Tattooed

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?

- William Saroyan

source: "Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia" by William Saroyan, 1936.

topic: Summer, Country, Drinking, Summer And Winter, Armenia

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

- Jules Michelet

topic: Race, India, World, Starting Point, Race And Religion

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

- Brené Brown

topic: Disappointment, Grief, Hungry, Birthplace

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

- Brené Brown

source: "..is #PANPOLY a dilemma?" by Adrienne Wu, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2017.

topic: Struggle, Creativity, Joy, Birthplace

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

topic: Men, Firsts, Facts, American Flag, Inspirational Patriotic

I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.

- Nas

source: Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

topic: Men, Thinking, People, Birthplace, Great History

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.

- Werner Herzog

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Volcanoes, Korea, People, Birthplace

When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.

- Joseph Hertz

source: Isidore Epstein, Joseph Herman Hertz (1935). “The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma”

topic: Christian, Writing, Years, Autonomous, Birthplace

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

- Willa Cather

topic: New York, Writing, Creative, Birthplace

The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Beautiful, Men, Past, Birthplace, Self Understanding

We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram.

- Venkaiah Naidu

topic: Temples, Rams, Common, Birthplace

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.

- Penn Jillette

topic: War, Party, Self, Birthplace

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

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: India, Cinema, Language, Birthplace, Birth Place

Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.

- Jason Reitman

topic: Writing, Thinking, Editing, Birthplace, Birth Place

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.

- Ai Weiwei

source: "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

topic: Country, Culture, Shapes, Birthplace