A. Whitney Brown
A. Whitney Brown

Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

Anurag Kashyap
Anurag Kashyap

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

Brandon Webb
Brandon Webb

World records aren't broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.

Brendan Myers
Brendan Myers

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Caecilius Statius
Caecilius Statius

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

Chuck Inglish
Chuck Inglish

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.

Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld

I grew up in Cincinnati, the birthplace of the creamiest and most delicious ice cream with the hugest chocolate chips. Graeter's used to be available only regionally, but an extravagant thing you could do was overnight-ship six pints to another state, in dry ice.

Debbie Millman
Debbie Millman

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

Frederic Chopin
Frederic Chopin

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.