Born Quote by Phyllis Bottome

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

— Javier Bardem

Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.

— Katharine Viner

To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and…

— Angelina Jolie

“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…

— John Farebrother

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

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

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

— Milana Vayntrub

Refugees, especially in their early years, are still caught up in the experience that made them refugees. And they're much more melancholic. They're much…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly ladies and…

— Mary Beard

A lot of people don't understand that refugees especially, are fleeing situations that are affecting their livelihood and their children's livelihood.

— Ahmad Balshe

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

— Nguyen Viet Thang