Emigration And Immigration Quotes & Sayings

I lay my worries at Your feet. Thank You, Lord, for the mighty ways You deliver me. You are my rock and shield. — Judith Costello

What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?" Weren't the Russians communists when they helped us slap down the Germans? And now. What could we do with the Russian nation if we bombed it to bits? How could we "rule" such a mass of foreign people - - - we, who don't even speak the Russian language? How could we control them under our "democratic" system...? — Sylvia Plath

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. — Claudio Magris

Everyone is trying to mold you to their type. You won't reach your maximize potential if you get distracted by attempting to please everyone. — Assegid Habtewold

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it
while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation
takes cover under dubious and sinister masks. — Norman Manea

Aunt Fostalina says when she first came to America she went to school during the day and worked nights at Eliot's hotels, cleaning hotel rooms together with people from countries like Senegal, Cameroon, Tibet, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and so on. It was like the damn United Nations there, she likes to say. — NoViolet Bulawayo

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism. — Arthur Jones

I'm falling with no safety net.
I don't know what's worse. Falling in love with a beautiful cowboy I'll never see again or falling in love with a jerk I know will break my heart.
In the end, it doesn't matter. Both outcomes suck big time. — J.C. Reed

Or perhaps you started the building phase and were off to a great start, but over the process of time, you've made some poor choices, choices that the enemy loves to throw up in your face to bring you shame. You see, the enemy wants you to scrap the building plans and abandon this journey altogether. He wants to pull you aside and whisper into your ear, "This is a mess, this house is falling apart and surely this isn't the plan for you. — Randy Lawrence

I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway. — Gwenda Bond

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God. — John Ortberg

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms. — Cynthia Kenyon

It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France. — Milan Kundera

People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse. — Shane MacGowan

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate. — Russell Simmons

She felt happy in Paris, happier than here, but only Prague held her by a secret bond of beauty. — Milan Kundera

Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you. — Caryl Phillips

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden — Jo Grimond

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies. — Dejan Stojanovic

Death was confused. "That's senseless! I am the doorway to eternity. — Mary Ann D'Alto