Quotes About Relocation

I dream of moving to India, or Pakistan, and becoming a cabdriver.

From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.

It's like Thomas Aquinas told Charlemagne in an overpriced bistro in Nice: "You never realize how much shit you have until you have to move it all.

Almost everywhere, the new urban expressways destroyed wide swaths of existing housing and dislocated people by the tens of thousands.

One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes...

The fact that Kate was based at Quantico somehow softened the blow of moving again.

Let the tent be struck.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

One home is forsaken in hopes of finding another.

Each year about a quarter of the managers in a typical Fortune 500 company changes jobs.3

Have you ever heard of a poet named Cavafy?" I told him no. "A Greek poet. Gay, in fact. He wrote a poem about a young dissolute man who tires of his life and resolves to move to a new city and mend his ways. The poet's comment is that moving away is futile because, having ruined his life in one place, he has ruined it everywhere.

My meth lab tends to explode. I move to a new one like a hermit crab.

During the years it took to remove the Five Civilized Tribes, the Indians underwent great hardships. By 1838 the bulk of the proud Cherokee Nation had been rounded up, often at gunpoint, from their farms in Georgia and Tennessee and herded west. More than 14,000 Cherokees were relocated. Most were forced to make the 800-mile trek on foot. During the six-month journey one-fourth of the Cherokees died. Forever, this infamous forced march would be known as "the Trail of Tears.

Les chiffres étaient impressionnants : plus de douze mille personnes, en France, chaque année, choisissaient de disparaître, d'abandonner leur famille et de refaire leur vie, parfois à l'autre bout du monde, parfois sans changer de ville.

At one point, Jack was enlisted to move Red from his aunt Maude's house in Redlands to his grandma Iris's house in Pomona.

Leading critics of the World War II evacuation and relocation don't just argue that the military rationale for Roosevelt's actions was insufficient. They make the extremely radical and historically dishonest argument that there was no military justification whatsoever for evacuation, relocation, or internment—and that America's top political and military leaders knew this at the time.

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

Para un árbol, cambiar de sitio es la muerte; para un hombre, cambiar de sitio es la vida.

when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

However," he continued when she remained silent, her throat a knot of emotion, "it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.

Memories seem to be stored using a variety of mysterious principles, so that you have to circle around and around, through misty clouds of association, before you can relocate some missing piece. It is easy to persuade yourself of the truth of something for which the only evidence is a strong urge to believe. Douglas

Everyone who seeks salvation must do three things: change his place of residence, change his name, and change his deeds.

Mortimer and Jacqueline quietly sold their East Seventy-Fifth Street town house, in an off-market transaction, for $38 million. They were rumored to be moving to London, a city long favored by oligarchs with unsavory fortunes