Michael Ondaatje Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Home, Sri Lanka

• Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

• The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Children, Distance

• It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Home, Odd

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