Refugees Quotes
85 Refugees quotes by 68 unique authors
-
This should be a true peace, which leads to the end of occupation and aggression, to the return of refugees to their homes, to the…
— Khaled Mashal
-
Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if…
— Golda Meir
-
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…
— Loren Eiseley
-
Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.
— Ismail Haniyeh
-
We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing…
— Fatos Nano
-
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…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
-
When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?
— Marco Rubio
-
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine.…
— Robert Winston
-
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an…
— James Wolcott
-
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the…
— James Wolcott
-
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…
— Haruki Murakami
-
In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on…
— Greg Mortenson
-
They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted…
— Neal Stephenson
-
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
— Chris Cleave
-
Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army? Talk about delusions…
— Nora Roberts
-
And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on…
— Eric Weiner
-
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees…
— Greg Mortenson
-
When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their…
— Mary Pipher
-
We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We…
— Erich Maria Remarque
-
I know I'm not going to say good-bye. And if these staggering refugees want to help, if they think they see something bigger here than…
— Isaac Marion
-
In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim…
— Robert Fisk
-
We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is…
— Mohsin Hamid
-
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are…
— Isabel Allende
-
When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the…
— Antonio Guterres
-
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could…
— Ted Turner
Who Wrote These Refugees Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 85 Refugees Quotes, led by these top contributors: