Birthplace Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Dream, Lonely, Loneliness

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• 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

  Birth Place, Doe, Cinema

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• 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

  Hate, Color, Ku Klux Klan

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• 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

  Giving Up, Lying, Believe

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

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• 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

  Tourists, Gas Stations, Honest

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• 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

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

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• Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

  Og Mandino

  Vineyards, Today, Fruit

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.45, Bantam

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• 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

  Beer, Boys, Order

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

  Teresa Heinz

  Real, Ideas, Political

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

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• 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

  Patriotic, Dragons, Honor

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

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• 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

  Summer, Country, Drinking

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

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

  Jules Michelet

  Race, India, World

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

  Brené Brown

  Disappointment, Grief, Hungry

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• 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

  Struggle, Creativity, Joy

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

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• 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

  Men, Firsts, Facts

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

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• 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

  Volcanoes, Korea, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Christian, Writing, Years

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

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

  Willa Cather

  New York, Writing, Creative

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• 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

  Beautiful, Men, Past

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

  Venkaiah Naidu

  Temples, Rams, Common

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• 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

  War, Party, Self

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

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• 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

  Birth Place, India, Cinema

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  "TIFF 2009 – Writer-Director Jason Reitman on Being Festival Royalty". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• 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

  Country, Culture, Shapes

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

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