Foreign Countries Quotes - Page 2

• Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.

  Claudio Reyna

  Soccer, Sports, Country

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• What the federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that they wanted presented ... The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Government, Should Have

  "Sarah Palin On Oil Spill: Send In Dutch Dike Builders" By Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

  Erma Bombeck

  Country, Travel, Fall

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• Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!

  Michael Badnarik

  Country, People, Volunteer

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• For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, Journey, Darkness

  "Oh to Wanderfly (and How It’ll Help You Travel)" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

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• I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Country, Believe, Government

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• There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

  Mark Haddon

  Country, Travel, Writing

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• There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones--. . . . The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Country, Stars, Jealous

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• Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Goal, Understanding

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• Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

  Cameron Diaz

  Country, Travel, Believe

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• Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

  Marguerite Duras

  Country, Writing, Men

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.66, Grove Press

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• We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

  Arthur Erickson

  Country, Team, Guilty

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• I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Reading, Eight

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• Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

  Milan Kundera

  Country, Mean, Childhood

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• Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Differences, Different

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• Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Travel, Heaven

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

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• Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Law, People

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.

  Glenn Archer

  Country, Wind, Nuts

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• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  Ed O'Brien

  Country, Fantasy, Fantastic

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• I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

  Ian Rush

  Funny, Soccer, Football

  'It Was Like Living in a Foreign Country' by Lee Honeyball, www.theguardian.com. February 06, 2005.

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• In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Country, Law

  Robert Adams, Maren Stange (1990). “Paul Strand: essays on his life and work”

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• My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

  Alice Hoffman

  Country, Healing, School

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• The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Political, Unions

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.111, Coventry House Publishing

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• Four months filming in a foreign country. You know, it is great because you get to learn all about different cultures. I feel so much more enriched.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Country, Different, Culture

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• Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

  Larry David

  Country, Moving, Hair

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