Homeland Quotes - Page 7

• Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Memories, Disappointment, Betrayal

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.

  Lindsey Graham

  Leadership, Reality, Isis

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• After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

  Jeff Flake

  September 11, Defense, Spending

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• What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Names, Evening

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.170, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Public service announcement: In case of a terrorist attack, bottled water and duct tape are not going to do a damn thing. So do what Homeland Security Dir. Tom Ridge does: Get really drunk, and pick up a hooker.

  David Letterman

  Water, Drunk, Doe

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• Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.

  Pope Francis

  Baby, Years, Honor

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. the water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.

  Elif Safak

  Children, Father, Ocean

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• World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Pride, Happy Life, Men

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• If war explodes in Sudan, it could have a destabilizing effect that creates more space for terrorist activity that could eventually be directed at our homeland.

  Barack Obama

  War, Space, Terrorist

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.

  John O. Brennan

  Opportunity, Strikes, Bin Laden

  "Brennan: Post-9/11, U.S. Has ‘Right Balance’ Between Civil Liberties, Security". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 7, 2011.

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• In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.

  Duncan Hunter

  Law, Immigration, Borders

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• There is a mental space that we consciously makes our way back to, and give honour to what has formed us in this mental homeland which we carry with us always. It is important not to try to annihilate it but to take your courage in your hands and go back, and then I think you can more easily make a new beginning. A lot of us would like to know how to do this.

  Robert Dessaix

  New Beginnings, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly deadly substance, threatens the remaining life there and in the waters which flow from there. Forestry departments spray the surviving forests with powerful insecticides to encourage tourism by people seeking a few days or weeks away from the cities where the air hangs heavy with sulphur and carbon oxides.

  Winona LaDuke

  Brother, Powerful, Air

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• Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, they all have ties to Iranian money. I think they are the biggest exist - existential threat... Russia could be up there, but I think it would probably be to one of our NATO allies rather than the homeland.

  Eric Bolling

  Thinking, Russia, Ties

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• ... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Wind, Land

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

  Billy Campbell

  Virginia, England, South

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino. And all across Europe we've seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.

  Donald Trump

  Nice, Islamic, Boston

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Writing, Track, Lasts

  Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.85, SCB Distributors

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• That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Anchors, Feet, Space

  Janette Turner Hospital (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.277, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

  Bob Inglis

  Government, Names, Homeland Security

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• I am home grown St. Lucian. Born in 1980 I have spent most of my life on this island. Apart from the few summers I spent in the United States I spent most of my time in my homeland.

  St. Lucia

  Summer, Home, Islands

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Father, Law, Training

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• A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Book, Long, Long Time

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• Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

  David Byrne

  Music, Song, Believe

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• I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Optimistic, Government, People

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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