Repatriates Quotes & Sayings

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music. — Erykah Badu

That's the shock, and the surprise, to a lot of repatriates: No one back home cares. There's an initial, shallow interest in what life is like abroad, but most Americans aren't actually interested, at all. — Janice Y.K. Lee

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it's taken a tumble in the dirt. He'd meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn't exist for humankind any more. — Katherine McIntyre

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. — Paul Bremer

In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified. — Gregory Maguire

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable. — Cyril Connolly