Quotes About Displacement

than twenty-eight thousand buildings destroyed. Many of those buildings were homes. Whole communities had been decimated.

Feet are what connect you to the ground, and when you are poor, none of that ground belongs to you.

Shelter can be hard to find. A place can become our home for reasons we do not understand. We build the memories that turn into what we are, then what we were, as we look back.

Maybe home for some is always the one they lost.

The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up somewhere else, never sat home, only away .

This displacement between then and now created an ever-present sense of unease, like a low-frequency sound she couldn't hear clearly enough to identify, but that was disturbing nonetheless.

He was a wanderer between two worlds and must ever wander...

It was always unpleasant, moving like this; it always brought home to you the essential rootlessness of yourself and all men like you, always on the move, never really stopping anywhere, never really home.

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.

The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

To him it felt as if his house had seased to be his home and instead had become a place that merely contained some of his belongings.

The initial displacement of Palestinians came about as a result of the Israeli-Arab Wars of 1948. With the British withdrawal from the Palestine Mandate and U.N. resolution 181, the Israelis declared their independence. Immediately, the surrounding Arab nations swore to destroy the Zionist state. They rejected all attempts at mediation or offers by Israel to negotiate. Instead, they went to war—and lost.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.

I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic.

Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.

I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, my ass. American ingenuity amounted to squat in this place.

I know they was families got thowed off their farms back in the thirties by the TVA and come to Anderson County and got thowed off all over again. They was even families had been removed from their homesteads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the thirties, TVA in the thirties again, and the atom bomb in the forties. By that time they didnt have nothin.

The most painful aspect of exile was how home became a dream, cleansed of all that was bad. One never returned to the dream one had nurtured over centuries, but to a reality that would always look shabby compared to the romanticized memories.