Elia Suleiman Quotes

Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

Elia Suleiman

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• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • English
  • Same
  • France

• We owe it to his memory and the memory of so many other people who have been killed in the Lebanon, lost all their livelihoods, to ensure there is a democratic Lebanon and one which is fully sovereign within its borders.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Lost
  • Memory

• I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Understand
  • Directors
  • Identification

• [Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

  

  Libby Houston
  • Up
  • Children
  • Poetry

• American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Tradition

• In the face of a rapidly changing world, the people of our beloved country have once again demonstrated a commitment to hard work and courage. It is now evident that everything that occurs beyond our borders can have a profound impact upon how we live, the problems with which we have to grapple and the quality of life, which our people will enjoy.

  

  Denzil Douglas
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

  

  George Clooney
  • Men
  • Children
  • Today

• I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Borders
  • Declare

• I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows
  • Lips
  • Palestine

• I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Interviews
  • Iran

• Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sleep
  • Land
  • Borders

• You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mean
  • Clear
  • Separation

• The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

  

  Herodotus
  • Country
  • Borders
  • Sun Shines

• This melting pot of experiences, interests, educations, backgrounds, and cultures makes the U.S. truly amazing. It's how we can come together to come up with new ideas, to collaborate, and to innovate without having to think about borders.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Amazing
  • Come
  • Borders

• Human dignity should be without borders.

  

  Geena Rocero
  • Borders
  • Human Dignity

• We can't defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense. We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities. We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • People
  • Country
  • Security

• Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Borders
  • Neighbors
  • Global Community

• My grandfather was an exceptional entrepreneur and philanthropist who moved from Palestine to Jordan and created an amazing group of companies. In a world where women were expected to get married and stay at home, he encouraged me from a very young age to get involved in business and work. He always took me with him on visits and I would spend my holidays at his office, running errands for him and observing what he did each day.

  

  Hanan Kattan
  • Entrepreneur
  • Grandfather
  • Palestine

• Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Sacrifices
  • Working Hard

• Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Friends
  • Christmas
  • Honesty

• Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Borders
  • Palestine
  • Identification