Birthplace Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Birthplace Quotes from famous persons: Kevin Bleyer, Brendan Myers, Jamal Khashoggi, Xavi, Jon Meacham. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Birthplace Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

To research my book ‘Me the People’ – in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States – I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.

Kevin Bleyer

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

Muslims around the world deserve to see birthplace of Islam represent the ethics of Islam.

Jamal Khashoggi

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

Attacks on a politician‘s identity – questioning Romney‘s religion, say, or Obama‘s birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can’t sell himself.

Jon Meacham

Home is one’s birthplace, ratified by memory.

Henry Grunwald

Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.

Julie Andrews

World records aren’t broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.

Brandon Webb

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don’t see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

Conor Oberst

Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I’ve made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time – they are my audience. They’re the people that I think about while I’m writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.

Jason Reitman

So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I’ve read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It’s kind of the birthplace of great storytelling.

Richard Dormer

I wonder what it’s like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America‘s first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.

Henry Rollins

In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.

Andre Aciman

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.

Chuck Inglish

I grew up in Cincinnati, the birthplace of the creamiest and most delicious ice cream with the hugest chocolate chips. Graeter’s used to be available only regionally, but an extravagant thing you could do was overnight-ship six pints to another state, in dry ice.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

Joe Biden

Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don’t see Japanese with cameras.

A. Whitney Brown

One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, carrying visitors on a one and one-half hour trip past Johnson’s birthplace, the family cemetery and ranch house, and through the ranch.

Michael Frome

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most people don’t know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground… in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.

Joy Harjo

We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

Irwin Rose

It is unfair to constantly allege that Manmohan Singh’s only unfulfilled desire is to visit his birthplace in Pakistan and that his Pakistan policy is defined by this obsession.

Sanjaya Baru

A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it was vandalized so much, it was finally taken down for good.

Matt Apuzzo

The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

Leonard Slatkin

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

Anurag Kashyap

Mathura station must be developed in such a way that it reflects birthplace of Lord Krishna.

Hema Malini

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one’s birthplace.

Frederic Chopin

The whole world is a man‘s birthplace.

Caecilius Statius

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

Debbie Millman

Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama’s budget policies: Neverland.