Global Migration Quotes & Sayings

Open immigration can't exist with a strong social safety net; if you're going to assure healthcare and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global — Paul Krugman

Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration. — Harsimrat Kaur Badal

I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know. — Tamara Mellon

I wished I could erase everything else and hold on to this moment, this brief second when he and I knew how much we meant to each other. — Kiera Cass

Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish. — Rita Mae Brown

The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies. — Mohamed El-Erian

If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality. — Aviva Chomsky

In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition. — David Blunkett

What is true in the South is true for America. — Barack Obama

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them. — Ramakrishna

We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions. — William McDonough

Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first. — Vicki Pettersson

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics. — David Halberstam

The power of an idea whose time has come is really the power of Spirit at work. Equality for all is how God is, for instance, and we seek to be like God. When enough of us, along with one or two at visionary consciousness, begin to contemplate these in-Spirit ideas, they can't be stopped. — Wayne W. Dyer

We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side are those who say that global challenges like migration and terror cannot be met with national parochialism. On the other side are those who would like to see a renaissance of the nation-state. — Martin Schulz

I'm glad I don't know everything, Dorothy, and that there still are things in both nature and in wit for me to marvel at. — L. Frank Baum