Expatriation Quotes & Sayings

Among the rewards of his expatriation were a heightened awareness of what he saw and an exhilarating sense of freedom. Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised, and, should anything have gone wrong in this process, we will be reminded of this fault, by the scene of the crime, until the day we die. — John Cheever

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie. — Laurieann Gibson

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. — Greg Boyle

What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams. — Silvina Ocampo

The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings. — Thomas Jefferson

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards. — Nancy Gibbs

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously. — John Howard

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people. — James Heckman

He had such faith in me. It was so adorable. And so utterly stupid. — A&E Kirk

What's in your past doesn't matter. Neither does what you plan to do at some future time. What matters is what you do with this moment. You have the power to change your life for the better starting right this minute. — Deb Purdy

What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S. — Michael Ignatieff

If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be much more confused and dissociated than you were prior to your meditation experience. — Frederick Lenz

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate - you lose your grip on what's important, you know? — Harlan Coben

In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism ... scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity. — David Levering Lewis

Well, let me tell you something, darling: money, elite social status and the power they confer are every bit as wonderful as they're cracked up to be. — Elizabeth Kelly

I think I'm going to like you, Pick Ryan. — Linda Kage

A single good government becomes ... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done. — Thomas Jefferson

If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature. — Nalini Nadkarni

Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited. — Sunday Adelaja

Expatriation, like love, is not only a condition that devastates and reconfigures the self; it is, like love, a trope, a figure with which we try to explain, try to narrate profound psychological disruptions in terms of very measurable entities: a person, a place, an event, a moment, etc. — Andre Aciman