Motherlands Quotes & Sayings

Todoroff is the best. Look no further. — Samuel L. Jackson

[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. — Howard Zinn

I should have told you I overheard. Let you explain. I'm sorry." Straight up apology. It took balls to do shit like that, even for sweet, cute, shy women. — Kristen Ashley

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me. — Marcel Proust

There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar to Mormonism - it's any patriarchy that I think stops, thwarts, or denies our creativity. — Terry Tempest Williams

Through all the windows I only see infinity. — Mark Z. Danielewski

What a strange world where we pay people to listen to our problems, and pay them to fuck themselves while we watch, and pay them to save us. — Leah Raeder

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way. — Matthew Vaughn

No I'm not lucky, I'm blessed YES — Nicki Minaj

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. — James T. Walsh

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound ... Everything is mediated through the mind. — Carl Jung

Perhaps all miracles are just the immediate response of objective material reality to a pure, heart-felt thought of not wanting to inconvenience anyone. Maybe the Universe is serving the highest spiritual thought. Maybe the logic of magic is love. — Eve Jones

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' — Plato

Motherlands are beloved, no doubt; sometimes they can also be exasperating and maddening.Yet I have also come to learn that for writers and poets for whom national borders and cultural barriers are there to be questioned, again and again, there is, in truth, only one motherland, perpetual and portable.
Storyland. — Elif Shafak