Homelands Quotes

#1. The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#2. If we take the pope at his word and socialism is highly preferable to capitalism and he was really concerned about these people, he would demand they go home. He would demand they return to their homelands wherever they are, if they were socialist.

Rush Limbaugh

#3. Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.

Johannes Rau

#4. The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.

Oscar Arias

#5. And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift.

Paolo Gentiloni

#6. A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.

Aberjhani

#8. I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

G. Willow Wilson

#9. Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#10. So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.

Patricia Briggs

#11. She has always been somehow weightless, free of the heavy burden of mother tongues, national histories, native soils, homelands, fatherlands, myths, that many of the people around her tote on their backs like a sack of red-hot stones.

Dasa Drndic

#12. Music in a movie might tell you about longing. It might tell you about fear. It might tell you any number of things, but it tells you something different. Something happy might be going on, but there can be this little sad tinge underneath that tells you something.

Fred Schepisi

#13. Alex got angry at me because he said I didn't understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn't understand. Not then.

Andrew Klavan

#14. That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#15. The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime.

Norman Douglas

#16. Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

Khaled Hosseini

#17. Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions

Salman Rushdie

#18. You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

Carson McCullers

#19. And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

Dick Durbin

#20. My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.

Tracy Spiridakos

#21. Try looking at things with a positive mind, that you will succeed no matter what! It will help better your life and brighten your world!

Timothy Pina

#22. Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Bob Dylan

#23. Sleeping with a woman is easy. Loving her is an entirely different thing.

Margaret Way

#24. And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

Paul Merton