Exile Quote by Julia Alvarez Download Open image “Independence didn't have to be exile.” — Julia Alvarez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exile Freedom Independence Inspirational Love
During the 35 years of Left regime, there was no independence. We were left at the hands of torturers. — Nagma Copy Share Image
Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended. — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. — Aslan Maskhadov Copy Share Image
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us. — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle,… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image