Displaced Quote by Cynthia Basinet

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was…

— Jonas Mekas

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

Men can get jobs from one country to another, they can get in. But the people who always fell through the cracks were women…

— Iman Abdulmajid

“I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“You and I, your mother, Ahlam, we are from up there,' my father continued. 'We come from the stunning stars. We were just born…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

— Gary Hustwit

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it…

— James Nesbitt

I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

If human rights are an attribute of being human, then we must consider the fact that tens of millions of displaced people around the…

— Masha Gessen

Towards the end of touring 'The North Borders' I had a lot of personal stuff going on - family members who had died -…

— Bonobo

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during…

— Tyler Perry

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,'…

— Janet Fitch

I speak the truth on what happened to me because it's happening to a lot of people that grow up in displaced and disadvantaged…

— Frank Shamrock

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

— Dennis Potter

“I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the…

— Jeanette Winterson