Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

There is no sorrow above The loss of a native land.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.