Displaced Persons Quotes

#1. Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

Pauline Kael

#2. Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

Jonas Mekas

#3. I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

Jean De La Bruyere

#5. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#6. Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

George Crabbe

#7. The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

Maria Montessori

#8. The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It's why the Americans are falling behind - they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they'd rather sit and pray that the world won't make them adapt too much.

Jaroslav Kalfar

#9. After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

Timothy Ferriss