Motherland Quotes

• Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mother, Pride, Land

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• If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

  Chandra Shekhar Azad

  Freedom, Blood, Water

  "Character: Chandra Shekhar Azad". "Rang De Basanti", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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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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• We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Peace, Challenges, Enemy

  "Fighting In Ukraine Surges To Worst Level In Months" by Alessandra Prentice and Pavel Polityuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2015.

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• India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

  Will Durant

  Mother, Philosophy, Race

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1931.

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• Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me a hundred births inIndia. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland.

  Ram Prasad Bismil

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Sorry

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• Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support to the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, when they resolutely decided to return home, this event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever.

  Vladimir Putin

  Love, Uplifting, Powerful

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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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• There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Citizens, Common

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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 loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England.
  After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Dust, Land

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• I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Russia

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

  Alfred de Musset

  Art, Blood, Water

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.

  Heather Nova

  Travel, Rain, Smell

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• My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Cities, Roots, Feet

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• You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, America

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• My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Children, Book

  "For Patriotism and Profit". Interview with Robert Fisk, www.worldpress.org. July 2001.

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• As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Love, Land, Australia

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• And they say
  She's in the class A Team
  Stuck in her daydream
  Been that way since eighteen, but lately,
  Her face seems
  Slowly sinking, wasting
  Crumbling like pastries
  And they scream
  The worst things in life come free to us
  Cos we're just under the upperhand
  Go mad for a couple grams
  And she don't want to go outside tonight
  And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
  Or sells love to another man
  It's too cold outside
  For angels to fly
  Angels to fly

  Ed Sheeran

  Couple, Team, Angel

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• All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Home, India, Want

  "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'" by Taslima Nasrin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Future, Sea

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.146, Penguin

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• Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Spiritual, Sex, Mean

  Speech delivered at Nagpur University Convocation on 5th December 1936, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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• As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.

  Liu Yang

  Heart, Garden, Blue

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• [Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, Generations, Burning

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.646, Seven Stories Press

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• I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.

  Liu Yang

  Grateful, Space, People

  "China's first female astronaut shows how 'women hold up half the sky'" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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