Quotes About Being A Refugee

#1. Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?

Scott Simon

#2. Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

Faith Hill

#3. 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

#4. Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses.

Anna Lappe

#5. Even if you are facing a bitter aspect of life ... Drugs and murder are foul, without any excuse. Deserve a red card, for a loser. -Kudou Shinichi(Edogawa Conan)

Gosho Aoyama

#6. I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.

Kelly McCreary

#7. I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#8. I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

Tony Hsieh

#9. I like working by myself.

James Vincent McMorrow

#10. I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my best to raise their consciousness both as women and as Aboriginals.

Pat O'Shane

#11. Every person who comes is a human being and has the right to be treated as such.

Angela Merkel

#12. 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

#13. I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

Janet Montgomery

#14. Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#15. There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.

Steve Mariucci

#16. I am the twelve-year-old girl,
refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean
after being raped by a sea pirate.
And I am the pirate,
my heart not yet capable
of seeing and loving.

Thich Nhat Hanh