Motherland Quotes

“The land is always there...it is you who has to return”
― Munia Khan

“Sometimes I can’t tell if you hate this place or love it.”

“I love its potential. I hate its past. And I don’t like what it is.” She hugs her knees close to her chest. “The way you feel about the place you grew up in is a lot like how you feel about your family.”

“How’s that?”

She thinks about it for a long time. “Like isn’t the same thing as love.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades

“My nation is my family. And family is the basis of my inner being, the solid ground on which I stand… If family breaks from the inside, it leads to complete destruction… I have a mission… Once, when my nation, my family, needs me, I must be there…”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Barbarian

“Любов к Отчизні де героїть,
Там сила вража не устоїть,
Там грудь сильніша од гармат.”
― Іван Котляревський, Енеїда

“Không ai dời đặng non, không ai chia đặng nước, thế thì tháng một ở Bắc Việt, tất nhiên vẫn rét, mưa tháng một ở Bắc Việt tất nhiên vẫn riêu riêu. Và nghĩ đến như thế thì bảo không yêu Bắc Việt làm sao cho được?
Mưa rét thì khổ, khổ nhất cho người nghèo, nhưng biết như thế mà vẫn cứ yêu bởi vì cái mưa, cái rét ấy thông thường quá, vì chỉ có Bắc Việt mới có cái mưa cái rét ấy thôi. Ai đã xa nhà, trôi nổi ở một phương trời không có nước mắm, không có phở, tương tư phở và nước mắm thế nào thì ở giữa một thành phố khét lẹt hơi người, chói chan nắng lửa, người ta cũng nhớ mưa rét tháng một ở quê hương mình đến thế là cùng. (Tháng Một)”
― Vũ Bằng, Thương Nhớ Mười Hai

“The most pleasant and pure feeling is to live with a sense of being part of the Motherland, because exactly this feeling spares [us] from loneliness.”
― Saparmurat Niyazov

“So immutably does a human being surrender to the mist of the Motherland! Just as a tooth will not stop aching until the nerve is killed, so is it with us; we shall probably not stop responding to the call of the the Motherland until we swallow arsenic.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Архипелаг ГУЛАГ: 1918-1956: опыт художественного исследования

“Motherland. Madre Patria. We are born of a nation, and we are shaped by its features. Whatever that nation offers — whether it’s hardship or opportunity — is our inheritance.

When we see ourselves belonging wholly to our nation, it can be difficult to decipher its flaws and shortcomings. We make excuses for its failures and contradictions, just as family members sometimes cover for one another. It’s a form of denial.

Conversely, when your own nation lets you down, when it leaves you vulnerable, when it fails to make good on the promises of citizenship, the sense of betrayal you’re left with is nothing short of traumatic.”
― Tracy K. Smith

“Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.”
― Munia Khan

“Your real presence on the earth can be truly experienced when you are at your own home. Its your native !! Its your motherland !!”
― Aditya Pandya

“Thế nhưng mà thôi, nói mấy cũng là thừa, bởi vì từ xưa tới nay ai cũng biết là Bắc Việt nghèo
khổ mà Nam Việt thì phè phỡn. Phè phỡn vì Nam Việt là con cưng được trời thương, nhưng
“con ghét làm nên” có lẽ cũng là được trời thương cách khác. Nhưng dù là con thương hay con ghét thì cũng là anh em ruột thịt cho nên Nam, Bắc lúc nào cũng thương nhau, mỗi khi thấy cẳng đậu đun hạt đậu, thì hạt đậu khóc hu hu:
Cùng chung nhau một mẹ,
Đun nhau nỡ thế ru?
(Tháng Một)”
― Vũ Bằng, Thương Nhớ Mười Hai

“এই তালতলারই আমার এক দার্শনিক বন্ধু একদিন বলেছিলেন যে, এমেটিন ইনজেকশন নিলে মানুষ নাকি হঠাৎ অত্যন্ত স্যাঁৎসেঁতে হয়ে যায়, ইংরিজীতে যাকে বলে 'মডলিন'- তখন নাকি পাশের বাড়ির বিড়াল মারা গেলে মানুষ বালিশে মাথা গুঁজে ফুঁপিয়ে ফুঁপিয়ে কাঁদে। বিদেশে যাওয়া আর এমেটিন ইনজেকশন নেওয়া প্রায় একই জিনিস।”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali, দেশে বিদেশে

“True success of a woman is not in making her mother proud of her but in making her motherland proud of her”
― J. Tisa

“I am paying everyone's debt, but I can't pay my motherland debt”
― Azadshah Ganjali

“My only wish is for the development of my motherland. If I say otherwise, I regret it.”
― Habibullah Bulbul

“No todos los pueblos son igual de razonables para elegir su conveniencia o su destiño, ni igual de cínicos para justificarse después ante la Historia o ante sí mismos. En cuanto a nosotros, fuimos hombres de nuestro siglo: no escogimos nacer y vivir en aquella España, a menudo miserable y a veces magnífica, que nos tocó en suerte; pero fue la nuestra.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood

“আমি বাংলাদেশকে ঘৃণা করি, কারণ এটা আমার মাতৃভূমিকে নির্যাতন করে।”
― Shobuj Taposh

“I hate Bangladesh, because it tortures my motherland.”
― Shobuj Taposh

“How is there a homeland without a human being.. Humanity is the motherland!! ... and the homeland is a servant of humanity!!! ... Hesham Nebr ........ #thanks_google_translate
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كيف يكون هناك وطن بدون إنسان .. إن الإنسانية هي الوطن الأم !! ... والوطن هو خادم للبشرية !!! ... هشام نيبر”
― Hesham Nebr

“З рідним домом, як з батьківщиною: половину життя можна прожити на чужині, але до останнього свого віддиху треба мати свідомість, що десь є та батьківщина...”
― Ірина Вільде, Сестри Річинські

“Ann has her Ukraine and Ukraine has its Ann.”
― Ann Romanenko, Ukraine, I Wrote About

“No such power exists that can eliminate one's determination, and tenacity, which devotes and advocates the motherland.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“I cannot sell the honour of my people, and the prestige of my motherland even I have to leave all things for that.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The lady laughed a little laugh and said, “A man with a strong body as yours is not capable of doing anything more than showing a few shiny pieces of cloth? Where is the obsession of the moth that hurtles itself into the flame out of devotion?”
“Show me first the wick that burns itself to light the room, Ma’m?”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“Motherland!” He laughed, now feeling fully at ease. “I leave the job to serve the motherland in the worthy hands of the grandees. People like me, of the country, our lives are embroidered to our villages.”
“Villages like yours together form the country, our mother.” She retorted.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“For racists, wherever their ancestors had been once is their motherland -even if the “ancestors” visited there as merchants, refugees, tourists, even as robbers, invaders or occupants, or just accidentally, does not make difference, everywhere the “ancestors” touched once belongs to the “worthy grandchildren of venerable forefathers”

-To Be Tried As A Jew-”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo

“Любовь к Родине и ненависть к ней — две стороны одной медали.”
― Виктор Шендерович, Мой друг Али, потомок Магомета

“И передо мной, естественно, как перед всяким “изгнанником” (по Ахматовой) вставал выбор меж двумя ценностями — родина иль свобода? Не задумываясь, я взял свободу, ибо родина без свободы уж не родина, а свобода без родины, хоть и очень тяжела, может быть, даже страшна, но все-таки — моя свобода.. Так что “надменные строки” Ахматовой о каком-то “изгнаннике” меня всегда необыкновенно отталкивали.”
― Роман Гуль

“My only wish is for the development of my motherland. If I say otherwise, I regret it.”
― Habibullah Bulbul - حبیب الله بلبل

“آه ای سرزمین سیه روزی
که باید پیوسته سینه ی تو را کاوید
ای شهر من! ای شهر من!
بلاخره روزی در زندگی ما
بهار می شکفد
ای وطن من، بلاخره آزادی
من می گویم؛ تو از آن منی”
― Jean Laffitte, ب‍رم‍ی‌گ‍ردی‍م‌ گ‍ل‌ ن‍س‍ری‍ن‌ ب‍چ‍ی‍ن‍ی‍م‌