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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quote of Antoine de Saint-Exupery - We are of our childhood as...


Biography - Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Born: 1900 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

We are of our childhood as we are from a country.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
On est de son enfance comme on est d'un pays.

German
Ich stamme aus meiner Kindheit wie aus einem Land.




See also 

See also...



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

The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.




Quotes for: childhood


Quotes

Quotes about childhood:


Wisdom leads us back to childhood.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.





It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.





The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.





The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.











Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery also said...


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).





As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.





A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





Language is a source of misunderstanding.












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