Quotes About Displacement

Soy hijo del camino, caravana es mi patria y mi vida la más inesperada travesía

Beaucoup ont quitté leur terre natale, et beaucoup d'autres, sans l'avoir quitté ne la reconnaissent plus.

So I've become an exile without ever leaving my country.

each civilized person in the world should admit that he has two home countries: the one he was born in, and Syria .

How do you calculate loss, as in the loss of place, encompassing those whose "investment" in their home was not simply economic but who had nowhere else to go? How do you calculate the loss of a place, not only its real geography but the geography of its imagination?

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

Before Hurricane Katrina, I always felt like I could come back home. And home was a real place, and also it had this mythical weight for me. Because of the way that Hurricane Katrina ripped everything away, it cast that idea in doubt.

Suppose a part of Britain or a part of America was taken away and given to the Jews as Israel. Do you think the Americans are going to sit quietly and say 'Welcome,' and all that? They won't.

The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's vital because it sets an example.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

Cisco presents our biggest challenge in the firewall market for the fact that they have such a large percentage of market share. Displacement of an entrenched incumbent is always a challenge.

The global movement of displaced people, many of whom end up in detention without hope, is one of the most pressing issues of our times.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

He would forever be suspended between two lands, never whole.

We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it.

My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it.

She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. You're lost! You're angry! You're in the wrong school! You're in the wrong country! You're on the wrong planet!

It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

En la historia del mundo, nunca antes los no-lugares han ocupado tanto espacio". Los

one ATM could do the work of no fewer than thirty-seven human tellers (and, into the bargain, rarely fell ill). In the United States, about half of all those employed in retail banking—some 500,000 people—lost their jobs between 1980 and 1995, thanks in large part to the invention of these silkily efficient machines.

Deep down the fear of a man who lives in a world not made for him, whose own world is slipping away, dying, being destroyed, beyond any recall.