#homeland

No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#imaginary-things #immigrants #immigration #imagination

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. ↗

— Aristophanes

#man #prospers #wherever

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#countries #dependent #energy #foreign #foreign countries

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland. ↗

— Anselm Kiefer

#because #believe #build #homeland #i

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#enemy #europeans #fight #homeland #homes

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#compatriots #consider #difficult #difficult moment #duty

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters. ↗

— David E. Price

#against #attacks #avoid #between #colleagues

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#border #economic #forward #going #homeland

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#homeland #live #longer #man #place

ثمة شيء ننساه في زحمة التسابق على حفظ الجُمل الثورية الجميلة. هذا الشيء هو الكرامة الإنسانية. ليس وطني دائماً على حق. ولكنني لا أستطيع أن أمارس حقاً حقيقياً إلا في وطني. ↗

— محمود درويش

#freedom #homeland #rights #freedom