Top 9 Boym Quotes

#1. Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hugh Laurie

Boym Quotes #573063
#2. Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story
the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Hugh Howey

Boym Quotes #1078448
#3. The nostalgic is never a native but a displaced person who mediates between the local and the universal.

Svetlana Boym

Boym Quotes #1211560
#4. Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.

Banana Yoshimoto

Boym Quotes #1311153
#5. Is Prayer Only for Man? II [10w]
God created man so He'd have something to pray for.

Beryl Dov

Boym Quotes #1477157
#6. Reality is what you can count on.

Dallas Willard

Boym Quotes #1510279
#7. The nostalgic is looking for a spiritual addressee. Encountering silence, he looks for memorable signs, desperately misreading them.

Svetlana Boym

Boym Quotes #1600266
#8. There was too much between them to think of any type of future. Yet, with him standing in front of her, she wanted to think of the future. Wanted him to wrap his arms round her. Kiss her. Tell her it would be all right.

LaVerne St. George

Boym Quotes #1641265
#9. Nostalgia is a longing for home," Svedana Boym writes, "that no longer exists or has never existed." In the 20th century, that longing, she adds, quoting historians Jean Starobinski and Michael Roth, had "shrunk to the longing for one's childhood.

Dan LeRoy

Boym Quotes #1673085

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