#fatherland

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#below #conditions #earth #energetic #every

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#does #fatherland #inhabit #inhabits #language

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#church #dedicate #deserves #fatherland #fighting

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. ↗

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

#german #german people #heart #i #loved

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#building #considers #fatherland #first #first time

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#also #bind #fatherland #our #roads

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#fatherland #germany #here #live #our

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#even #fatherland #havana #i #i do

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#arisen #basically #conditions #confusing #encouraged

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#calls #fatherland #itself #murder #ready