Birthplace Quote by Willa Cather

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“Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.”

Willa Cather

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“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.”

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"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

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“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in peace. She flecks her whip upon flesh that is more alive, upon that stream of hungry boys and girls who tramp the streets of every city, recognizable by their pride and discontent, who are the Future,…

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But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness…

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“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike about things." "Yes, that's it; we've liked the same things and we've liked them together, without anybody else knowing. And we've had good times, hunting for Christmas trees and going for ducks and making our plum…

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“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach…

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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

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I grew up in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Harden County, which is not too far from the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.

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We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram.

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It’s a Belgian beer, sweetie. Please tell me you’ve at least heard of it. (Blaine) Boy, I was born in Brussels and the last…

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The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

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Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

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God said to Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee." God says to man: "First, get you out of your country, that means the dimness you have inflicted on yourself. Then out of your birthplace, that means out of the dimness your mother…

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Muslims around the world deserve to see birthplace of Islam represent the ethics of Islam.

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Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

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Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

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Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—

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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

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