April Quote by James Meade

I was three years old, so I actually don't remember much of the refugee process.

— Milana Vayntrub

We left Germany when I was 11.

— Anonymous

From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted.

— Clemantine Wamariya

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

— Elliott Carter

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

— Jack Steinberger

I was the child of refugees.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who…

— Alek Wek

Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee…

— Samantha Power

The children are designated as "Air Force aides of the Hitler youth" and wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery…

— Friedrich Kellner

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

— Milana Vayntrub

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

— Barkhad Abdi

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside…

— J. G. Ballard