Birth Place Quotes:

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

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

topic: New York, Birth Place, Grew Up, Omaha

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

topic: Ocean, Birth Place, America, Pacific Ocean

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

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

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

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 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

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

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

- Bayard Rustin

source: Bayard Rustin (1971). “Down the line”, Quadrangle-New York Times Book Co.

topic: Mind, Plot, Rooms, Sinister, 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

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

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

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

- Lucy Stone

topic: Truth, Years, Birth, Birth Place

A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.

- Georges Bernanos

topic: Men, Law, Numbers, Martial Law, Convicts

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

- Josephine Baker

topic: Mean, Equality, Men, Born Free, Birth Place

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

- Phyllis Smith

source: "Naomi Woodley". Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. June 23, 2011.

topic: Age, Birth, Accurate, Birth Place

It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Well Said, Birth Place

You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with a special guided bus tour highlighting the rise of the crack trade, yet you can hop on a bus in Chicago tomorrow to see the famous locales of murders. I have to imagine there's some wonderful academic book on the sociology of this out there.

- Tod Goldberg

topic: Book, Museums, Blood, Highlighting, Crips