Passports Quotes - Page 8

Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.

Elizabeth Gilbert

America, Honor, Married

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I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.

Henry Rollins

Wise, War, Fall

Source: www.truth-out.org

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There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years later and it's still doing damage.

Henry Rollins

War, Years, Looks

"Hard Travelin' With Henry Rollins: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Leopold, www.truth-out.org. August 27, 2012.

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New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

Richard Florida

New York, Alaska, Kentucky

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When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don't stop for customs inspections and microbes don't carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.

Benjamin Barber

Rain, Simple, Trade Zone

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The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

Douglas Adams

Animal, Borders, Benefits

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

Chuck D

Color, People, Way

Source: www.motherjones.com

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If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

Chuck D

World, Might, Ifs

Source: www.motherjones.com

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I was in China this year and I spent three weeks there with no luggage, in a really not very nice place and without anything except my passport and my wallet. You're a long way from home and you've got no phone and you can't get in touch with anybody.

Jill Douglas

Nice, Home, Years

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.

Narendra Modi

Thinking, Bhutan, Progress

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If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.

Earl Wilson

Travel, Journey, Needs

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It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Geraldine Brooks

Country, Writing, Past

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For He hath prepared for them a City! Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to have any passport nor visa problems, they're not going to have to make sure you've got enough money to stay there awhile, it's YOUR town, your Hometown in Heaven, praise God? And they're all going to be your people! We're just going to be one nationality of one nation, ...we just haven't found the place yet, we haven't gotten there yet!

David Berg

Cities, People, Heaven

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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

Sinclair Lewis

Lying, Healing, Fighting

Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.

Emily Mortimer

Children, Husband, Eight

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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

Taslima Nasrin

Country, Used, Bangladesh

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I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

Robert Smith

Class, Musician, Honestly

The Hit magazine, 1985.

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The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

Rolf Potts

Country, Travel, Home

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The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.

Miriam Toews

Mother, Dad, Black And White

Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Book, Tradition, Humans

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... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try to live,' he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, 'Neither.' 'For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?' I wrote, 'For the rest of my life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Men, Long, Trying

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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Yann Martel

Sky, Nations, Ifs

Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.81, Vintage Canada

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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

Libba Bray

Dream, Xenophobia, Book

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How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

James Thomas Fields

Sweet, Flower, Men

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To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hezbollah is launching Katyushas, but I'm loath to say too much about them. The Party of God has a copy of every journalist's passport, and they've already hassled a number of us and threatened one.

Tom Gross

Party, Curves, Numbers

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