Cities Quote by Suketu Mehta

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

— Azar Nafisi

When I was a girl I had this strong feeling that I didn't belong anywhere,... It was in my head, what I thought and…

— Tim Winton

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.

— Therese of Lisieux

It's kind of hard to put in words, but it's been a tremendous change, coming from where I came from to living my dream…

— Brandin Cooks

I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as…

— Emir Kusturica

Every day, I think, by the grace of God, I'm here, blessed to be a U.S. citizen, but I could have just as easily…

— Leana S. Wen

Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the…

— Jimmy Carter

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from…

— Blue Balliett

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The place that you love or the place that you want to live in, this is your country this is your identity, its not…

— Joe Hayek

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

— Norman Granz

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness,…

— Julie Christie