Birthplace Quotes

• The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Birth Place, Mind

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

  Sarah Turnbull

  Sweet, Two, Knowing

  Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.30, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Memories, Home, Birth Place

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• Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Heart, Color, Brain

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1860). “The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With The Story of Iris”, p.185

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• Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Fear, Inspiration

  "Can We Gain Strength From Shame?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naïveté, we would watch the
  passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing
  the very depths of our little souls?

  Emma Goldman

  Dream, Stars, Eye

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.427, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.

  Deepak Chopra

  Want, Awareness, Possibility

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 10, 2011

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• Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace.

  Frederic Chopin

  Dies, Hard

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• Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

  William Hazlitt

  Destiny, Birth Place, Ties

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.84

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• Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Healthy, Assumption, Speak

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2016

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• If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

  Martin Luther

  Laughter, Heaven, Earth

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• 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

  Book, Eye, Intelligent

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• God said to Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee." God says to man: "First, get you out of your country, that means the dimness you have inflicted on yourself. Then out of your birthplace, that means out of the dimness your mother inflicted on you. After that, out of the house of your father, that means out of the dimness your father inflicted on you. Only then will you be able to go to the land that I will show you"

  Martin Buber

  Country, Mother, Father

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.56, Psychology Press

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• Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

  Og Mandino

  Long, Skins, Vineyards

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

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• India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Past, Men

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• Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Romola: Top Novelist Focus".

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• For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.

  King Hussein I

  Children, Birth Place, Together

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• Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Character, Eye

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.157

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• Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

  Brené Brown

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Creativity

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• 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

  Discovery, Europe, Birth Place

  Lewis Mumford (1983). “The golden day: a study in American literature and culture”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Children, Roots

  1850 The Scarlet Letter,'The Custom-House'.

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• Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But once you've found a solution, there is no need to continue the adaptive behavioral parrying, which is bioenergetically very expensive to maintain. We are built to find answers, then hang on to them as long as we can.

  John Medina

  Long, East, Needs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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

  Character, Birth Place, Principles

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

  Xavi

  Football, Heart, Birth Place

  "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

  Thomas Seward

  Birth Place, Cities, Rivals

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