{"quotes":[{"text":"The land is always there...It is you who has to return.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["abroad","always","land","motherland","native","nativeland","patriot","patriotic","patriotism","retreat","return","soil"],"id":76331,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.","author":"B.G. Bowers","tags":["africa","exile","extradition","identity","motherland","outsider"],"id":87109,"author_id":"B.G.+Bowers"},{"text":"In order to protect the honour of her motherland, she had betrayed the trust of her mother.","author":"Debajani Mohanty","tags":["mother","motherland","trust"],"id":162329,"author_id":"Debajani+Mohanty"},{"text":"Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["beneath","feel","flight","gulls","land","mind","mind-body-spirit","mind-power","mindfulness","minds","motherland","ocean","oceanic","oceans","rise","sea","seagull","seagulls","spirit","spirituality","wing","wings","wings-of-your-mind"],"id":193194,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.","author":"Saleem Sharma","tags":["motherland","ocean","river"],"id":312205,"author_id":"Saleem+Sharma"},{"text":"I hate Bangladesh, because it tortures my motherland.","author":"Shobuj Taposh","tags":["bangladesh","hate","motherland","tortures"],"id":335668,"author_id":"Shobuj+Taposh"},{"text":"Love \u0026 Passion for Motherland is NaturalServing with Respect to Home Land is Necessary.","author":"Venkat Gandhi","tags":["homeland","love","motherland","passion","respect"],"id":353866,"author_id":"Venkat+Gandhi"},{"text":"The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.","author":"Matthew Arnold","tags":["beauty","britain","calm","cliffs","coast","home","moon","motherland","nature","night","patriotic","sea","tide"],"id":410918,"author_id":"Matthew+Arnold"},{"text":"Sometimes I can’t tell if you hate this place or love it.”“I love its potential. I hate its past. And I don’t like what it is.” She hugs her knees close to her chest. “The way you feel about the place you grew up in is a lot like how you feel about your family.”“How’s that?”She thinks about it for a long time. “Like isn’t the same thing as love.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["fatherland","home","homesickness","love","motherland","patriotism"],"id":433475,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}