Becoming Quote by Louise Erdrich Download Open image “I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.” — Louise Erdrich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming Feels Foreign lands Land Persons
I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a… — Sophie Copy Share Image
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
We moved around a lot when I was younger. I never really felt at home until we moved to Canada, but even then, I… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of… — Paul Tagliabue Copy Share Image
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
