Quotes About Your Birthplace

#1. And you can fool yourself if you're raised in New York. Think that somehow your birthplace alone makes you cosmopolitan. But it isn't true. We're rubes too.

Victor LaValle

#2. It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

Sarah Turnbull

#3. On Earth it is never possible to be farther than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace,

Douglas Adams

#4. I'm also hard at work on plans for the Obama Library. And some have suggested that we put it in my birthplace, but I'd rather keep it in the United States.
Did anybody not see that joke coming? Show of hands.

Barack Obama

#5. 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

#6. No great stars above her. Only a blackness that hurt to look at. Had the distant suns abandoned their birthplace? Earth was dying and the stars were gone like adulterous celestial lovers seeking a new terrestrial mate. She did not blame them. We were never worth shining for, she thought.

C.J. Anderson

#7. 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

#8. 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.

Brene Brown

#9. Diversity is worth celebrating, Humbrall Taur, for it is the birthplace of wisdom.

Steven Erikson

#10. 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

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

Venkaiah Naidu

#12. Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.

Kabira

#13. 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

#14. As long as there are people in exile, there will be people who want to get back to their native soil.

Warren Eyster

#15. The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Brendan Myers

#16. Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#17. I stole you, among others, from the streets of God's birthplace. I forced you to work as a slave. Imprisoned, mistreated and starved you and your companion. To top it off, I am in the process of selling your life to the highest bidder. Why would you trust me?

V.S. Carnes

#18. 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