Quotes About Migration

The nomadic instinct is a human instinct;

The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions. There were no people on the street anymore. They were rumors carrying bags.

The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions.

Jews fled deep into the Sahara and lived there among the Berber tribes, some of whom they later converted to Judaism. Ironically, it was a Cyrenaican Jew, Mark–the St. Mark of the Gospels–who converted to Christianity and founded

Between 1956 and 1961 more than 35,000 Moroccan Jews left clandestinely for Israel under the auspices of the Mossad. In 1960, the same year that he masterminded the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, Isser Harel, travelled to Morocco as a tourist. His visit there convinced him that manyJews wished to leave, and he appointed Alex Gatmon to be in charge of the Mossad operations in Morocco, under Ephraim Ronel in Paris.

Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach.

After living at sea for twenty years or more, the female loggerhead returns to the beach of her birth to nest. She travels hundreds of miles through the Atlantic, her three-hundred-pound, eddish-brown carapace filled with hundreds of fertile eggs.

It could be argued that it began long before Christianity arrived in a boat and seeped into Kerala like tea from a teabag.

From the deep and the near South the sons and daughters of newly freed African slaves wander into the city. Isolated, cut off from memory, having forgotten the names of the gods and only guessing at their faces, they arrive dazed and stunned, their heart kicking in their chest with a song worth singing.

The sky over New England was crow black, pitch-black, Bible black, so black it could be difficult at night to keep to the path, so black that a line of trees might freely migrate to another location or that you might find yourself pursued after nightfall by a rabid black hog, leaving you to crawl home, bloody and disoriented, on all fours.

Everybody who is anybody in the Philippines today, except for a few Spanish mestizos, has Chinese ancestors.

look'n for a job? this is when the truck driver asks joad what he is doing and i think it indecates that this story revolves around a very hard time

The cultural tools people employ to make sense of displacement are the means by which migrants guard against that shattering or implosion of self and attachment. Without these tools, the disruption of migration leaves disintegration in its wake that neither the individual immigrant nor the community of immigrants can bear.

The squid are leaving, Maura…

Harlem was the area between 130th Street and 143rd Street, between Madison and Seventh avenues. In the late nineteenth century, as huge migrations of Russian and Polish Jews flooded into the city, fleeing the pogroms of Eastern Europe, Harlem became primarily Jewish. Russian Jews dominated the 1910 census figures of the area, and next came the Italians, the Irish, the Germans, the English, Hungarians, Czechs and others from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Blacks did not arrive in New York in large numbers until after World War I, and, following the lead of the foreign immigrants, they moved to Harlem. Most were from the rural South, and most were poor. As the blacks moved in, the Jews moved out—north into the Bronx or, if they could afford it, to the South Shore of Queens and Long Island.

So, could the solution to the mystery of how birds find their way around the globe lead to a revolution in biology? The

For the first time since I had arrived in America I had an almost physical sense of being in the wrong place, as if I were being tugged by an invisible cords to somewhere a million miles away.

Mesopotamia in the fifth or fourth millennium BCE was a magnet for nomads, drawing Sumerian-speaking peoples from the mountains or sea cultures and Semitic tribes that left the arid Arab Peninsula and migrated into the Mesopotamian greenbelt.

Daug keliauju. Tai žmon?s man?s vis klausia, iš kur aš. Tai sakau: aš gimiau ir išaugau Lietuvoj. Gyvenu Niujorke. O mano kraštas dabar yra kult?ra. Tai jie ži?ri ? mane, mirksi: a, juokdarys. Bet aš kalbu labai rimtai. Dabar aš ?domaujuos tiktai kult?ra. O kult?ra yra visur ir niekur.

Emigrating doesn't just offer you the chance to find a better future - it also allows you to choose the past that you like the most.

of German-Jewish writers as 'a marvellous nationality that they claimed when reminded of their Jewish origin, which somewhat resembles those modern passports that grant the bearer the right of sojourn in every country expect the one that issued it'.27

Between 1933 and 1938, a great exodus of German Jews began, far greater in its extent than that of the Spanish Jews after 1492 or that of the Huguenots after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. More than 450,000 Jews left central Europe as it came under Nazi rule.37 The whole of German-Jewish culture was exiled

one must keep in mind that most Jewish survivors in the survey had left Germany during the 1930s and had therefore only experienced the beginning years of National Socialism.