Ilya Ilyin Quotes

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me wherever I go.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.

I think that 'Station to Station' is a nomadic project not only in a literal sense, as it's traveling by train from place to place. Some of these places are New York City or Los Angeles, but some of these places are rather off-the-grid places.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

All my life I have been a nomad.

I've always been pretty nomadic.

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

I'm from all over the Northeast.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Saudi women used to drive camels and journey at night among men. What is the difference between a camel and a car?

Your people do not seem to like the place where they live and always want to be on the move going someplace else.

I can't stay in one place for too long.

Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there.

Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.

I actually don't live anywhere. I live on the road.

I've been travelling all my life.

By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.

Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.