Belonging Quote by Amin Maalouf Download Open image ““Some women's arms are placed of exile; others are a native land.”” — Amin Maalouf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belonging Exile Love Native land Women
“She was a woman who conquered herself so that she could serve others.” — Tilda Shalof Copy Share Image
“A nation is as strong as the hearts of its women. It's warriors may be brave and many, but when the blood of it's… — Pam Godwin Copy Share Image
“She ponders the transmigrations from southern latitudes. the millions moving north. What happens to their languages? The warm burial grounds they leave behind? What… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“A barren woman served no purpose in this kingdom. Her very reason for existing had been snatched away.” — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
“I never was the type of noblewoman to stay by the hearth while the men rode into battle anyway. As my father always used… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
“This wasn’t the Dark Ages, and she wasn’t living in a third world nation where women didn’t have any rights and were treated unequally.” — Missy Lyons Copy Share Image
“...modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“A woman can lend a man the strength to conquer a kingdom, and bring him to his knees with one breath.” — Brandy Nacole Copy Share Image
“when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was as if… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then its finished; no matter how brave its warriors… — Cheyenne Proverb Copy Share Image
“She didn’t know that Indian women had more power and authority than white women, a fact detailed in captivity stories.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Yes indeed, both Muslim and Jewish!I, her father, am Muslim, at least on paper; her mother is Jewish, at least in theory. With us,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Til gjengjeld er det store sjanser for at ethvert amerikansk valg heretter vil bli et verdensomspennende psykordrama.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Someone other than I might have used the word “roots”. It is not part of my vocabulary. I don’t like the word, and I… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
I always think the best way of motivating yourself is to put yourself in a situation where you feel like you're belonging to something. — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
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The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits will result,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The reason “belonging” was so potent, so attractive, so much a part of the human yearning, was that it also meant safety, and loyalty.… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
If some student belonging to weaker section of society suffers distress, humanity says it must be addressed. — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe the problem with the world is, that people are too quick to judge. And out of desperation, the loneliness creeps in like a… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“It turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it's the bravest and most sacred place you'll stand.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
