Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent."
Birth Place quotes
Birth Place
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech."
King Hussein I
King
"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."
Lewis Mumford
Philosopher, Author
"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."
Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"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."
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"IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there."
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"A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch."
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"Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified."
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