Affection Quote by Thomas Jefferson

So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are…

— Thomas Jefferson

“As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American…

— Jon Meacham

“Remember how you asked me where would I like to live best, the country or the city?" "And you said..." "And I said I…

— Sylvia Plath

“The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?”

— Niall Ferguson

“Tell your papa I’ll call upon him soon. Mr. Jefferson is still very much needed here in Paris, where his revolution remains undone. In…

— Stephanie Dray

“Long, long ago, I learned the heart cannot live in two places. I had to choose. My heart is in America. Where is yours?”

— Marivi Soliven

“I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land.”

— R.L. Bartram

“I'd Begin to imagine my life in a foreign country, some faraway land where, if things went wrong, i could always blame somebody else,…

— David Sedaris

“Any city in any country, including my own hometown, was to me just another place where I might live or might not live.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Where do I belong in this country? Where is home?”

— Wallace Stegner

“I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think of the…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“When I am in the country, I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town It is pretty much the same.…

— Jane Austen