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Third Culture Kids Quotes
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A collection of quotes related to the third culture kids experience. Please share your favorite TCK related quotes here.
“You can’t leave home, you can go other places, all right- you can live on the other side of the world, but you can’t ever leave home.” Sue Monk Kidd (from The Mermaid Chair novel)
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“In every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world without strong affiliation to family or location or nation or race. Those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainty, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness so that we mostly conform, we hide our secret identities beneath false skins of those identities which bear the belongers’ seal of approval. But the truth leaks out in our dreams; alone in our beds—because we are alone at night, even if we do not sleep by ourselves—we soar, we fly, we flee.” -Salman Rushdie
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‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’”You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place . . . like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
- Azar Nafisi, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
“You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore? All of a sudden, even though you have some place where you can put your shit, that idea of home is gone.
You’ll see when you move out, it just sort of happens one day, it’s just gone. And you can never get it back. It’s like you feel homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. And maybe it’s like this rite of passage, you know. You won’t have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it’s like a cycle or something. I dunno, but I miss the idea of it. Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place. ”
- Andrew Largeman, “Garden State”
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“To be rendered homeless—whether by hurricane, poverty, or choice—is to be deprived of not simply physical shelter but emotional refuge. Home is where we return to, where we stop and rest and think, where we piece together the new pictures in our minds and try to make sense of our planet. Without home, we are unmoored.
And it’s a literary lie that you can never go home again. Somehow, like a boomerang, most of us do. It may take a lot of trying and time before we get there. It may be a different home, it may be a home we build or rebuild, but it is home nonetheless: a physical place, a family or friends or both, a community.”
- Mark Jenkins, Outside Magazine, January 2006
“All who wander are not lost” J.R.R. Tolkien
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December 17th, 2007 at 8:16 am
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.” — T.S.Eliot
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December 17th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
I was just on myspace browsing the freshmen 15 movie they have up on there and stumbled upon “Jenny”. She’s a Aussie born Chinese who grew up in Hong Kong and now attending Syracuse University. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=221867724
The “movie” is basically a documentary of the lives of 15 freshmen girls who go away to college for the first time.
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December 17th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
The Ground Beneath Her Feet’”You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place . . . like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
- Azar Nafisi, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
I feel this a lot nothing is ever the same after you have left a place…you can never really go back.
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December 17th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.”
I like the whole quote. Tolken was also a TCK did you know. He lived in South Afica and England.
“not all those who wander are lost” I like wandering… “the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost”
The parts of me that i have built from around the world are not jsut going to dissapear they are forever a part of me they are my roots. i don’t really wnat to lose them and sometimes fear I will but I don’t really think so.
No matter how much I change or the hard this i go through i know i will be able to pick up the peices again cange and addapt and move on.
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December 17th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Alaine, nice find! I love those type of documentaries. You should probably post this on the TCK film thread to add to the list because it looks interesting.
http://www.tckid.com/group/the-film-thread/
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December 18th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
I like the last one:
“All who wander are not lost” J.R.R. Tolkien
I think that’s absofreakinglutely true.
Haha, I actually like that so much, I’ll put it on my nex page.
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December 23rd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~Elizabeth Drew
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January 4th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - St. Augustine
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. - G.K. Chesterton
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January 8th, 2008 at 1:56 am
“We stole countries. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in.” Eddie Izzard on the British Empire.
British Imperialist: I claim India for Britain.
Indian: You can’t claim us. We live here. There are five hundred million of us.
British Imperialist: Do you have a flag?
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January 8th, 2008 at 9:48 am
“Two languages in one head? No one can live at that speed!”
“But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana…”
“Yes, but they’re cheating! Everyone knows marijuana is a drug enhancement…”
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