Foreign Lands Quotes - Page 2

• The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rome, Land, Political

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• I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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• More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….

  Sebastiao Salgado

  War, Opportunity, Land

  Sebastião Salgado (2000). “Migrations: Humanity in Transition”

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• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. Riding through the air on silver wings instead of sailing the seas with white wings, he must steer his own course, for the air is uncharted, and he must therefore explore for himself the strange eddies and currents of the ever-changing sky in its many moods.

  Jean Batten

  Ocean, Sea, Land

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• It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

  Alfred Polgar

  Destiny, Land, Doe

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• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Insecure, Land, Tyrants

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• There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

  Charles Sumner

  Country, Stars, Father

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• There's nothing like having a history with someone, when you're in a foreign land.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Land

  "Samantha Bee". Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

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• Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Memories, Disappointment, Betrayal

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Grieving, Land

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• It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Land, Different, Able

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Land, World, Touring

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
  Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
  We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
  We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

  Francis Quarles

  Travel, Sea, Land

  Francis Quarles (1857). “Emblems: Divine and Moral”, p.82

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• Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.

  Jon Foreman

  Running, Song, Land

  Source: stereosubversion.com

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• Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.

  William Winwood Reade

  Christian, Dream, Spiritual

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.533

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• Tis often seen
  Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
  A native slip to us from foreign lands.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Choices, Adoption

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.234

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• They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Men, Hands, Land

  "Born in the U.S.A." (song) (1984)

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• Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Prayer, Moving, Land

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• But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works in a foreign land-will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Land, Way

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.135, Best Books on

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• Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

  Eric Holder

  Government, Land, Decision

  Address at Northwestern University Law School, delivered 5 March 2012, Chicago, IL

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• America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.

  Andrew Garfield

  Kids, Thinking, Land

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

  Michele Bachmann

  Land, President, United States

  Western Debate in Las Vegas, www.thepoliticalguide.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

  John Kufuor

  Mean, Land, Dubious

  John Agyekum Kufuor (2001*). “Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001”

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• There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Land, Traveller

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4189, e-artnow

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• To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, White, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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