Foreigners Quotes - Page 4

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

  Claudio Magris

  Migration, States, Danube

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?

  Blue Balliett

  Born

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• There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Outsiders, Antipathy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

  Rose Henniker Heaton

  Home, Trying, Hospitality

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• A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Hate, Nations

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• A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.

  Jackie Mason

  New York, Sound, Speak

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• The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Pestilence, Damage

  "What Are People For?". Book by Wendell Berry, 1990.

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• If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Country, Past, Secret Places

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “A Wallflower Christmas: Number 5 in series”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

  John Steinbeck

  Texas, Texan

  John Steinbeck (2012). “Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin

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• I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Two, Tanks

  "Holidays in Hell". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1989.

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• You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cities, Age, Steps

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

  Hans Zimmer

  Ideas, People, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

  John Ralston Saul

  Distance, Political, May

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• They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Forever, Brotherhood

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• The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Country, War, Men

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• Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

  George Orwell

  Football, Hurt, Games

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just rich. The word "healthy" doesn't exist in French. We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.

  Alain Ducasse

  Mean, People, Healthy

  "The Eat Sheet: How Alain Ducasse Pulled Off the Other Princely Wedding of the Year (Exclusive)". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 21, 2011.

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• ...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the new border; it became a river of blood upon the earth. And the orchards, fields, factories, businesses, all on the wrong side of that line, vanished with a wave of the pale conjuror's wand.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Two Nations, Blood, Rivers

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.289, Vintage

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• The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

  David Sedaris

  Men, Way, Korean

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.

  James Clavell

  Moon, Fire, Dragons

  James Clavell (1975). “Shogun a Novel of Japan”

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• But-but…” Timmie’s eyes couldn’t get any wider. “Why did you tell her I’m your boyfriend? Why doesn’t she know about your real one?” That was a good question. I cast around for an answer. Any answer. “He’s English!” I settled on desperately. “And Mom…Mom hates foreigners!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mom, Hate, Real

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• He looked glad to be on his way and made a beeline for the exit. Just as he was out the door, however, he stuck his head back in. “I don’t mind foreigners. God save the queen!” he squeaked, and ran. Bones arched a brow. I sighed. “Didn’t hear that part? Never mind. Don’t ask.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Queens, Doors, Mind

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• If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting sensless wars, dying of poverty and aids- unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Beautiful, War, Fighting

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• It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Believe, Men

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• Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.491, Courier Corporation

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