Arrivals Quotes - Page 9

• When I was very young, Denmark was a very small country, and we still are, but it was then very provincial and everybody knew everybody. Now, we are very much like the rest of the world, especially with the arrival of the internet.

  Michala Petri

  Country, World, Denmark

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• It was my job to interest them in everything that was happening, to make the arrival of the Daily Express each morning an event, to show them the world outside Bolton and Bacup, to give them courage and confidence to overcome the drabness of their lives.

  Arthur Christiansen

  Morning, Jobs, Giving

  Arthur Christiansen (1961). “Headlines all my life”

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• The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

  Amity Shlaes

  Mean, Saturday, Stills

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• All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Perspective, World, Privileged

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Boys, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war.

  Indira Gandhi

  War, Long, People

  Source: sangam.org

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• What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

  Hugh Hefner

  Technology, Would Be, Internet

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• ["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make any sense in terms of the Brazilian rating system for a film like this.

  Sonia Braga

  Aquarius, Cinema, Film

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Movement

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• We've admitted 59 million immigrants to the United States between 1965 and 2015. Many of these arrivals have greatly enriched our country. So true. But we now have an obligation to them and to their children to control future immigration as we are following, if you think, previous immigration waves.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Since his arrival, the new secretary of state has not held a single press conference. On his first big trip to Europe last month for the G20 summit, Rex Tillerson said less than 50 words in total in response to press questions.

  Rachel Maddow

  Europe, Months, Firsts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Way, Printing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One, gains an unmistakable impression that the Sky- God wanted to communicate with people of various folk religions all the time, but for His own mysterious reasons maintained a policy of restraint until the arrival of Yahweh's testimony! This is surely a powerful exta-biblical evidence for the authenticity of the Bible as revelation from the one true and universal God!

  Don Richardson

  Powerful, Biblical, Sky

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• In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.

  David Roediger

  Law, White, Long

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Florida, Groups, Citizenship

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.

  Kent Nerburn

  Years, Wind, Land

  Kent Nerburn (1996). “A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land”

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• David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Distance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.

  Scout Niblett

  Inspiration, Pops

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back. That is, from our perspective, completely clear. On the other hand, we should scrutinize the now completely outdated principle that only the migrants' first country of arrival should be burdened with their registration as well as with the process of sorting out who has the right to asylum and who needs to be deported.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Hands, Perspective

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Theory, Understood, Convinced

  Attributed to Chaim Weizmann, after a long trans-Atlantic journey; "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" credits Nigel Calder, "Einstein's Universe", 1979.

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• The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

  Seal

  Happiness, Children

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• The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Childhood, France

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• Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

  Jacob Zuma

  Capes, Towns, Problem

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• The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Eye, Avid, Giving

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book Two in 'The Burial', B/O, 1967.

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• On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In the Press, and diplomatic circles, it was difficult to find non-Jews...In France many believe, even amongst the Communists, that, thanks to the present anti-Jewish purge...Russia is no longer Israel's chosen land...Those who think that are making a mistake.

  Denis Fahey

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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