Refugee Day Ceremony

Famous quotes containing the words refugee, day and/or ceremony:

“The refugee uncertain at the door
You make at home; deftly you steady
The drunk clambering on his undulant floor.”
—John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)

“Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)