Immigration Quote by Chris Cleave Download Open image “So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.” — Chris Cleave ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Immigration Learning Little bee Refuge Refugee
I am not a refugee. I sought refuge for many years, but the word 'refugee' does not define me. It just limits me and… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
A refugee in the traditional vision is someone who flees from country to another because of persecution or conflict. But what we're witnessing now… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“As one refugee, Amila, from Gradačac, commented 20 years later: “The most important part of being a refugee is being a good loser; it’s the only way to survive this. You learn to lose your nationality, your home to strangers with bigger guns, your father to mental illness, one aunt to genocide, and another to nationalism and ignorance. You learn… — John Farebrother Copy Share
I've never been in a place where I've walked in the street and actually feel home, where I don't feel like a refugee. — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his… — Maria Franziska von Trapp Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen-… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I smiled down at Charlie, and I understood that he would be free now even if I would not. In this way the life that was in me would find its way in him now. It was not a sad feeling. I felt my heart take off lightly like a butterfly and I thought, yes, this is it, something has… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the… — Viktor Orban Copy Share Image
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“If all the developed countries would let in just 3% more immigrants, the world’s poor would have $305 billion more to spend, say scientists… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Let's be honest, if the Democrats didn't support ignoring our nation's immigration laws, there is no way they could win the presidency or a… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After… — Ed Koch Copy Share
