Quotes about Homeland Pride

Paul Robeson

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

Yasser Arafat

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

Monte Melkonian

The relationship of a people to their homeland is crucial. A people will naturally have a difficult time maintaining a common cultural identity without a collective presence in their homeland. Only in its homeland can a people develop economically, culturally and socially as a homogeneous entity. In fact, this is the crux of why some of us consider it necessary to struggle to live in our homeland.

Note the belief that the author has the belief that over time homogeneity is important in a state, whereas the most successful modern states have been ones that are diverse—i.e. America, Britain, China, France. There have been some small successful states like Norway that are homogeneous, but large states need the heterogeneity.

Gertrude Stein

There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I am pleased, with a feeling of good fortune, to be from Selanik. If you want to know the truth better, I feel that my chest is overflowing with a feeling of pride.

Steve Irwin

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

Walter Scott

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Homeland Pride Quotes