Quotes About Being Uprooted

#1. 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

#2. Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

Iain McGilchrist

#3. I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.

Stuart Woods

#4. An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Aesop

#5. Sobs force their way out of my throat. I feel like I'm trapped in a disaster movie where everything is shriveling into darkness and ash. Sunflowers are being uprooted. Puppies are being trampled. Whole cities are crumbling to dust.

Paula Stokes

#6. We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

Moshe Dayan

#7. The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.

James Richardson

#8. David James is a cretin.

Paolo Di Canio

#9. There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

J.K. Rowling

#10. We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.

Grace Williams

#11. The quickest way to recognize a cult is its treatment of Jesus.

Pat Robertson

#12. But there was something more miserable still - it was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years.

Edith Wharton

#13. How the fuck did a mummy get stuck under our floorboards?"
Shaking my head, I smile. "I have no idea." I point toward the hallway leading to the closet between our bedroom doors. "Grab the explosives.

Khalia Hades

#14. A body will accelerate in proportion to the force acting upon it,

Jerome Pohlen

#15. God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People

John Calvin

#16. I love you," I whisper.
"And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will.

Alyson Noel