Sentence examples for birthplace it from inspiring English sources

For sentimental reasons, Cai likes maintaining this connection to his birthplace — "it makes me remember, and it makes new memories," he told me — but he also values the artisanship there.

Even the English language suffers in its birthplace: it may dominate the globe but, according to a recent Home Office study, only 26% of the 1.3 million British residents of Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent are fluent in it.

He opened an office in China in Hunan province, Mao's birthplace (it worked for Mao, says Mr Zeman), and then more than three dozen offices throughout Asia.

Ten years ago, he explained, Father Cassian reëstablished a monastery in Norcia, St. Benedict's birthplace; it was the first inside the town's walls since Napoleon closed down Italy's religious communities, two hundred years ago.

"But Abilene is my hometown, it's my birthplace, it's where my family lives.

He has lived in New York City and on Long Island since the 1980s, but when he revisits his birthplace it's as if he never left.

It was popular in the northern city of Maiduguri, its birthplace, when it emerged in 2002 as a religious sect, capitalising on public anger over corruption, poverty and perceptions that the north is marginalised by the federal government.

'Well, I guess it's the birthplace for it,' he smiles.

America, I supposed, was its real birthplace … It is of course essentially democratic.

London was my birthplace and it remains my home because it is this critical mix of comfort and disturbance, but it was by leaving London that I realised what London is worth… London is an extraordinary place.

It was my first time visiting my parent's birthplace, and it was also when I discovered how distant I am from my family's culture.