Quotes About Displacement

When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.

I am also irritated by his use of the expression 'some people'. If the Israelis have been so indifferent, or even happy, as to throw 850,000 Palestinians from their homes, the least they can do is show some respect or a bit of sensitivity by knowing names of the families in whose houses they are living.

Chissà se al mondo esiste qualcun altro, oltre a noi palestinesi, che sente la mancanza di un aeroporto.

When you lose your home at a young age, you spend your life looking for its replacement.

Denying or repressing strong emotions doesn't eliminate them. Instead, they get displaced or stored up.

Many men feel hurt and rejected by the central focus that a child gains in his wife's life. Men who feel displaced, hurt, rejected, or devalued by the arrival of a child are more likely to retreat from doing housework or parenting. Their "laziness" is a protest for feeling displaced and unimportant.

No, forget it. You people took the village and drove away all our business, it's you who must submit to Shariah.

Como tanta gente que vive sola en un lugar que no es el suyo, empezamos por intercambiar inconformidades.

el virus del exilio, la compulsión de moverse por todas partes, ya que la vida le había prohibido quedarse en su propia tierra.

Abandonar un país era un juego de niños. Un trueque de colores y no de vida. El desarraigo no tenía color, en cambio. A uno le daba igual vivir en cualquier parte y nacer aquí o allá era un accidente. Uno era un camaleón, los países y la gente meros decorados. Tal

Mi vivir había sido como expelido de mi ser

desde 1948 miles de palestinos han tenido que abandonar sus hogares, se han visto despojados de sus casas, de sus tierras. Nuestra labor es evaluar la política de asentamientos que todavía está produciendo más desplazados. Donde nos encontramos ahora, aquí en esta colina

What is a man cast out of the kingdom of men?

On the way we encountered many other people: families on the move, women wearily limping along behind their men, carrying bundles on their heads and babies strapped on their backs, their children tottering alongside, dragging behind them bags and baskets overflowing with artefacts of their dislocated lives. [256]

Vinde, christãos do cabo do mundo, com esta vossa verdadeira irmã na fé de Christo, e quiçá que parenta de algum de vós outros por parte do pai que me gerou n'este desterro.

We were given one country and we've set up in another.

She had no place on this earth. There was no place where she was comfortable, no place she could relax, no place where she felt safe.

I'll never forgive you for what you did to me. You cheated me, you've driven me out of my home and now I'm in a no-man's-land but good—there's no place for me any more in Maycomb, and I'll never be entirely at home anywhere else.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn't a place for me.

Whenever I wake up in a strange house I always feel as if the wrong soul got stuffed into the wrong body.

His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

Where is the tuna? Where? Where?

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.