Homeland Quotes

• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it's a virtue to honor your parents, it's a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.

  William Bennett

  Mother, Country, Father

  William J. Bennett, John T.E. Cribb (2013). “The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America”, p.14, Thomas Nelson

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• Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Our Love

  "A Movement Moment" by Kenny Ausubel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2017.

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• We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

  Nawal El Saadawi

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• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  L. Neil Smith

  Believe, Government, Hands

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• A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

  Aristophanes

  Men, House, Words Of Wisdom

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• I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

  Homer

  Country, Eye, Men

  Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

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• As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Desks

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• We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Heaven, Earth

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• In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

  Joe Baca

  Government, Track, Borders

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• Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, God, Country

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1850). “Royalty and Republicanism in Italy: Or, Notes and Documents Relating to the Lombard Insurrection, and to the Royal War of 1848”, p.118, London, C. Gilpin

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• Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

  Nelly Sachs

  World, Metamorphosis

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• Our number one responsibility is to protect the homeland.

  Paul Ryan

  Responsibility, Numbers, Protect

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• There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Tasks, Patriot

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• It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

  Albert Camus

  Facts, Well Known, Wells

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays".

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• But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Memories, Believe, Palaces

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• I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

  Martin Heidegger

  Essentials, Facts, Tradition

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• To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Old Man, Warm

  "The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.

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• Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

  Dario Fo

  Heart, Law, Liberty

  Gavin Richards, Dario Fo (1987). “Accidental death of an anarchist”, A&C Black

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• My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Suitcases, Traveller

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• We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Way, Originality

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.218, Penguin

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• This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

  Yasser Arafat

  Middle East, Palestine, Kicks

  The Daily Iowan, September 11, 2003.

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• The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Hero, Fighting

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.54, Dawson Bros.

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• I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Home, Kissing

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• For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Men, Emigration

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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