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They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.

—Virgil, c. 30 BC

When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

—Hazel Rochman, 1995

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989

Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.

—Romalyn Ante, 2020

Life’s no resting, but a moving.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

—Socrates, c. 420 BC

I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

Home is wherever I go.

—Indira Gandhi, 1955

Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?

—Georg Büchner, 1835

It was lonesome, the leaving.

—Wetatonmi, c. 1877

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

—Horace, c. 20 BC