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Quotes About Nomad

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.
~ Jonas Mekas
My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.
~ Christopher Lambert
He could survive anywhere but he belonged nowhere.
~ Ken Follett
I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
~ Amin Maalouf
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.
~ Juliet Stevenson
I'm adaptable. A nomad, my mom always says." Zoe raised an eyebrow. "Your mom?" "Well I wasn't spawned.
~ Katie Reus, Deadly Fallout
But I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages.
~ Amin Maalouf
I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages.
~ Amin Maalouf
Soy hijo del camino, caravana es mi patria y mi vida la más inesperada travesía
~ Amin Maalouf
The Hungarian language, Magyar, resembles Finnish, Your Honor, though its lack of vowels could be attributed to them having been snatched by the wind when the horse-mounted nomad warriors shouted to one another. Allow me to quote Illirio Tepius, a Byzantine traveler, who wrote in 1232 that "when Hungarians speak, there is a windlike whistle that propels the words forward, as if they never dismounted.
~ Andrei Codrescu
I was born in the middle of the Sahara desert while my parents were there and that's probably why I have a Bedouin spirit!
~ Reham Khan
I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
~ Dar Williams
I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.
~ Aidan Quinn
Why don't you live anywhere?" "Do you have a house?" "Of course." "Is it a pure unalloyed pleasure?" "Not entirely." "So there's your answer.
~ Lee Child
research on hunter-gatherer groups ranging from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries shows that the average nomad worked just two to four hours each day.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
When I finish a movie, I get in my camper and drive around the country.
~ Pernell Roberts
I suppose that Ive got to point out that 'Nomad Chef' is not about survival in the wild. It is about celebrating remote communities and their food with them.
~ Jock Zonfrillo
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book.
~ Roberto Bolano
The polyglot is a linguistic nomad.
~ Rosi Braidotti
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
~ Anonymous
The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet.
~ Anonymous
mendicant mystic
~ Frank Herbert
And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them
~ Robyn Davidson
Nomad horsemen from central Asia, who depended on the 'delicate grassland ecology
~ Roderick Beaton