Quotes About My Homeland

#1. My homeland is the portuguese language.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.

Aaron Rodgers

#3. How often have I held back my complaint: Why should the Lebanese homeland be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Egyptian loaf be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Syrian roof be incompatible with Palestine? Why should Palestine be incompatible with Palestine?

Mahmoud Darwish

#4. This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

Yasser Arafat

#5. My uncle Khosrove became very irritated and shouted, It's no harm. What is the loss of a horse? Haven't we all lost the homeland? What is this crying over a horse?

William, Saroyan

#6. Thoughts of Narian, the strong, brave, tender young man with whom I had fallen in love, juxtaposed against the dark entity I envisioned taking over my homeland, would have shredded my sanity.

Cayla Kluver

#7. When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it.

David Harewood

#8. I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

Peter Jackson

#9. Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Gabriela Mistral

#10. I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?

Carly Fiorina

#11. My life was a wandering; I never had a homeland. It was a matter of being constantly tossed about, without rest; nowhere and never did I find a home.

Jan Amos Komensky

#12. We'd better go," I say. "It's time for you to make Hmong babies."
Toua pulls free from my grasp. "You little
"
"Go. Further the great Flower Clan. The mountainous homeland will sing from your victorious loins."
"You're disgusting!

Rose Christo

#13. This Heart at Peace is My Homeland. (Su Shih)

Sung Yee Poon

#14. I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Alan Cumming

#15. But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.

David Price

#16. While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Raquel Cepeda

#17. I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Ayelet Waldman

#18. From all the graces of my homeland
I chose only your savage heart.

Pablo Neruda

#19. My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

Brigitte Bardot

#20. My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.'

Dina Powell

#21. The river of my village doesn't make you think about anything.
When you're at its bank you're only at its bank.

Alberto Caeiro

#22. My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.

Peter O'Toole

#23. I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.

Banana Yoshimoto

#24. To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Jim Ryun

#25. My wife loves 'Scandal,' and I'm hooked on 'Homeland.' Sometimes I ask news makers, off the record, what rings true about those shows and what's ridiculous.

David Gregory

#26. Ah, what stars there are in the Ukraine. I've been living in Moscow almost seven years, but I still feel drawn to my homeland. My heart aches, I get a terrible urge to board a train and be off. To see the cliffs covered in

Mikhail Bulgakov

#27. Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#28. My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.

Dominique Moceanu

#29. Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back.

Tina Turner

#30. Before recording my 'Homeland' audition on my iPhone in my bedroom in Streatham, I hadn't worked or had an audition in the U.K. for nine months.

David Harewood

#31. My body knew what to do, what it wanted , even though my brain was firing off so many warnings I felt like Homeland Security during a Code Red.

J. Lynn

#32. The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security ... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

Warren Rudman

#33. The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

Billy Campbell

#34. But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

Anselm Kiefer

#35. I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started 'Homeland'.

Morgan Saylor

#36. Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Khalil Gibran

#37. I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

Mahmoud Abbas

#38. My wife and I have our date nights. We love the Showtime shows like 'Shameless,' 'Homeland' and 'House of Lies.' And of course, 'Scandal' is high on the list; you've got to do 'Scandal.'

Glynn Turman

#39. India means everything to me. It is my homeland. India is my country. It is here that I have gotten love and affection as a film star from millions and millions of my fans over the last five decades.

Dilip Kumar

#40. Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#41. One cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

Albert Camus

#42. My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described by Condoleezza Rice as 'the last outpost of tyranny in Europe.'

Evgeny Morozov

#43. I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley.

Malala Yousafzai

#44. I have traveled all over the world and gone to the highest peaks, and the densest jungles. The Carpathain Mountians will always be my homeland, but my home is a woman. Solange Sangria. You are home to me. Your body is my home. Your mind. Your heart and soul. It matters little to me where we are.

Christine Feehan

#45. I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

Lou Ferrigno

#46. The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

Leonard Boswell

#47. As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

Nadeem Aslam

#48. I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

Compay Segundo

#49. Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?

Mahmoud Darwish

#50. I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

Islom Karimov

#51. During my time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, Hillary was a strong supporter of our efforts to protect our homeland, decimate al-Qaeda, and bring Osama bin Laden to justice.

Leon Panetta

#52. From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

Rick Scott

#53. I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it.

Oswald J. Smith

#54. My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.

Elliott Yamin

#55. My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

Mahmoud Darwish

#56. I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

Mahmoud Darwish

#57. It's your choice to make, Kallik. I made my choice when I left my homeland. My home is with you now. Wherever we go.

Erin Hunter

#58. There is no other place on this earth where I feel such a strong sense of being a stranger than in my historic homeland.

Suad Amiry

#59. The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?"

Gabriel Mann

#60. I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

Miguel Syjuco

#61. Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Albert Camus

#62. I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#63. I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

Sally Quinn

#64. During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline ... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

Augusto Pinochet

#65. I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Pope John Paul II