Birthplace Quotes

“The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like the locals to be rejected as one of their own.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“As long as there are people in exile, there will be people who want to get back to their native soil.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“Je suis né dans la ville d'Aubagne, sous le Garlaban couronné de chèvres, au temps des derniers chevriers.”
― Marcel Pagnol, La Gloire de mon père

“Where are you from exactly?” he asked his state-based colleague, after exchanging first pleasantries.
“Gulf Shores.” Paul replied.
“I know we’re at the Gulf shore,” Garry said. “But where exactly?”
“Gulf Shores is a place.”
“Where’s Gulf Shores?” Garry went on with questioning, feeling increasingly silly.
“Baldwin County.”
“Where’s Baldwin County?”
― Krzysztof Pacyński, A perfect Patricide: Part 1

“There are lucky people everywhere and unlucky people everywhere. Where you are born does not have much to do with it.”
― T.M Cicinski, Drifting Onward Down The Stream

“He lived in the ancient house where he was born, at the bottom of a vallon in the hills, three hundred meters from Massacan, surrounded by a pine wood, the silence of solitude, the odor of resin, and the perfume of rosemary.”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs