Like Refugees Quotes

#1. Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

Joseph Sobran

#2. Naked on the bank, they looked like refugees waiting for the mercy of sepsis. It

Bobby Adair

#3. Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#4. Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Chris Gabrieli

#5. We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

Nicholas Kristof

#6. Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.

Gillian Cross

#7. My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long line of soldiers, like you, like death, marching toward us, and we would scatter with a practiced silence and hide.

Mia Kirshner

#8. Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

Loren Eiseley

#9. People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.

Andrew Crofts

#10. Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Carlos Fuentes

#11. We thought of [New York] as a free city, like one of those storied prewar tropical nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions.

Luc Sante

#12. I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop. I was at the front five and a half years, and you just got a feeling for the right amount of lead.

Gunther Rall

#13. Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.

Martti Ahtisaari

#14. Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children.

Hillary Clinton

#15. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

Margaret Atwood

#16. Sumire was so bereft of household goods the place looked deserted. There weren't any curtains in the windows and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a gang of intellectual refugees.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Their flight was not less exhilarating for being explainable.

Poul Anderson

#18. A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

Chuck Baldwin

#19. Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Samuel Butler

#20. And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he said, 'My job is not to worry about those people.' You know, where do people get this stuff that Mitt Romney is a heartless, calculating c**ksucker?

Bill Maher

#21. The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ...

Sri Aurobindo

#22. My father hasn't told me about it but he showed me the straight path

Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#23. We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

Jeff Sessions

#24. In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

Marco Rubio

#25. There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

Louis MacNeice

#26. These are the ashes of fiery weather,
Of nights full of the green stars from Ireland,
Wet out of the sea, and luminously wet,
Like beautiful and abandonded refugees.

Wallace Stevens

#27. Since the peace treaties
of 1919 and 1920, the refugees and
the stateless have attached themselves
like a curse to all the newly
established states on earth which
were created in the image of the
nation-state.

Hannah Arendt

#28. The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

Jon Lee Anderson

#29. Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They don't want to seem like the guy that 'has to call his girlfriend.' It's just boys growing up.

Kristin Cavallari

#30. I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.

Angelina Jolie

#31. Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down,

Sarah Hanson-Young

#32. Begging for More Kim Karr It was an instant attraction ... never intended to be more than a quick lay.

Alessandra Torre

#33. How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?

Thanhha Lai

#34. There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Haruki Murakami