Patria Quotes

#1. Ubi amo, ibi patria. Where I love. there is my home.

Elizabeth Hunter

#2. A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#3. Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?

Edgar Lee Masters

#4. The whole earth is the brave man's country.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

Ovid

#5. Patria o muerte! Motherland or death! Cuba si, yanqui no!

Ken Follett

#6. Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

Simon Bolivar

#7. Patria est communis omnium parens.
Our country is the common parent of all.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.

Mitt Romney

#9. Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

Marie Corelli

#11. Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

John C. Maxwell

#12. Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation.

Erik Larson

#13. I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

Adam Smith

#15. My father married my mother three days after they met.
Your father also killed and maimed people for a living. How about we just place him in the Not-To-Emulate pile?
Shattered Glass by Dani Alexander (Chpt 14)

Dani Alexander