Gertrude Stein Quotes

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss.

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

A writer without his country is nothing.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.

Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.