#homeland

every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18) ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#homeland #love-of-country #origins #love

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#ceaseless #colonial #come #courageous #decades

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#different #different places #displacement #end #forced

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. ↗

— Aristophanes

#man #prospers #wherever

This is my homeland no one can kick me out. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#kick #me #out

As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#conditions #convinced #forces #government #homeland

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#correct #deal #desire #everybody #get

I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#application #confident #developing #effective #going

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth. ↗

— Clint Black

#avoid #because #bizarre #desperate #driven

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#countries #dependent #energy #foreign #foreign countries