Refugees Quote by Thanhha Lai Download Open image ““We glide and I feel as if I'm floating.”” — Thanhha Lai ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Refugees
“And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath… — Juli Baker Copy Share Image
“And I realize, that this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“They float, they all float, and when your down here with me, you'll float too.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You're swimming so hard in this ocean. Don't you know if you float, it will always hold you up?” — Terra Elan McVoy Copy Share Image
“It was as if gravity was suspended. It was like dancing, I thought, although I had never danced in my whole life. We were… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“It’s a strange feeling, I thought, like my bones are walking along with me on the outside of my body.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It feels like the ground is breathing and the air has hands, like everything is moving except me, like I am the only thing… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“I know I'm standing still, but I feel like I've stumbled and I'm starting to fall.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I was feeling all fertile and blossoming there for a second. And now I just feel like me, on earth. I was floating a… — Amy Fusselman Copy Share Image
“MiSSS SScott points to the numbers along the wall. I count up to twenty. The class claps on its own. I’m furious, unable to… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
“Why no s for two deer, but an s for two monkeys? Brother Quang says no one knows. So much for rules! Whoever invented… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
“At first the weight of loss was thrust upon me so harshly I could only take a short breath, just enough to endure the… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
“I need the lessons. I’m hiding in class by staring at my shoes. I’m hiding during lunch in the bathroom, eating hard rolls saved… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
“She was promised to Father at five. They married at sixteen, earlier than expected. Everyone’s future changed upon learning the name H Chí Minh.” — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
“I tell you of loss, my child, so you will listen, slowly, and know that in life every emotion is fated to rear itself… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
“This year I hope I truly learn to fly-kick not to kick anyone so much as to fly.” — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
“I wish our cowboy could be persuaded to buy a horse, that I could be invisible until I can talk back” — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
“Some verbs switch all over just because. I am She is They are He was They were Would be simpler if English and live… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
“Being an immigrant is not a status but a state of mind. It doesn’t stop when you “assimilate” or “integrate” or when you go… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Migration is often accompanied by a feeling of unavoidable disorientation, and the circumstances of 1947 would have pronounced this feeling. In most cases, it… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under the heart… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“Let my story remind you that behind every refugee is a human being, a unique story waiting to be heard.” — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment of their… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of starvation at… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and… — Hugo Woolley Copy Share Image
“Refugees are not a monolith. Each journey is unique. Some arrive with dreams and aspirations; others carry the heavy burdens of trauma they long… — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
“He carries home in the way he walks: an elegant, loose strut. He wears home on his skin in the form of attar, a… — Diriye Osman Copy Share Image
“Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.” — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
