“As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.” ThinkingYearsLongHomeRunningNightGamesWinningInterestSavingOccupationPerpetualLong RunsAmusementAmusingImpartUnbecoming Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“This should be a true peace, which leads to the end of occupation and aggression, to the return of refugees to their homes, to the destruction of the dividing wall, and the establishment of a political status for East Jerusalem.” ShouldEndsHomePoliticalWallReturnDestructionEastOccupationEstablishmentAggressionRefugeeJerusalemDividingTrue Peace Author:Khaled Mashal
“So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.” PeopleLongHomePoliticalLandArmsActivityResistanceOccupationPalestinianFactionsArranging Author:Khaled Mashal
“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.” WorldBookHelpingFeelingsHomeLanguageForgetFateQuietProfessionPursuitImpressionMeritOccupationPreyConfinedForget YouExertion Author:Jane Austen
“The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.” WorldCharacterHomeLife IsFatherDifficultHoursRoomsObjectsHabitSacredCommunicateWork OutMysteriousOccupationHouseholdImmenseMarvelousTranscendenceAdventurousPrestigeEmbodiment Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.” PersonsHomeProcessLossParticularPainfulViolentFamiliarTraditionalFlightPermanentOccupationRefugeeRebirthPartingClose FriendsMidwifeFamiliar Places Author:Dervla Murphy