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Nature contains no one constant form.

—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770

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, 1961

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

—Hazel Rochman, 1995

Home is wherever I go.

—Indira Gandhi, 1955

Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?

—Heinrich Heine, 1827

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

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.

—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919

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

—Georg Büchner, 1835

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

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Life’s no resting, but a moving.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795

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

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

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

—Socrates, c. 420 BC

Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.

—Simone Weil, 1943