“People often belittle the place where they were born.”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
On the campaign trail in his home state Michigan, at a rally near Detroit.
2012-08-24
Mitt Romney makes birth certificate quip at Michigan rally
Ewen
MacAskill
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/24/mitt-romney-birth-certificate-quip?newsfeed=true
2012-08-25
2012-08-24
Romney stirs 'birther' controversy, Akin to stay in Senate race
CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/24/politics/rnc-campaign-wrap/index.html
2012
“People often belittle the place where they were born.”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
Dermot Bolger (1959) Irish writer
Source: The Journey Home
Christopher Monckton (1952) British public speaker and hereditary peer
Interview with Dennis Miller http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/22/lord-monckton-im-no-birther-but-obama-birth-certificate-plainly-a-forgery/ The Daily Caller, March 2012.
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."
Emer de Vattel book The Law of Nations
The Law of Nations (1758)
Original: (fr) car si vous y etes ne d'un etranger, ce pays sera seulement le lieu de votre naissance, sans etre votre patrie
Birju Maharaj (1938) Indian dancer
In [Reena Shah, Movement in Stills: The Dance and Life of Kumudini Lakhia, http://books.google.com/books?id=sSKU2DROHMgC&pg=PA117, January 2006, Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd, 978-81-88204-42-7, 117–]
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
Quoted by A. E. Hotchner in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979), p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=IBBbPUCmiNUC&q=%22I+was+born+wise+Street-wise+people-wise+self-wise+This+wisdom+was+my+birthright+I+was+also+born+old+And+illegitimate+But+the+two+big+advantages+I+had+at+birth+were+to+have+been+born+wise+and+to+have+been+born+in+poverty%22&pg=PA9#v=onepage