Nomadism Quotes

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

I'm kind of addicted to moving.

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

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.

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.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

I like the gypsy aspect of this business.

On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.

I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.

I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.

I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

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

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Anywhere you hang yourself is home.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

I've been travelling all my life.

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