Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770Quotes
Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCHistory in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCLife’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCI am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCUprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943