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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Europe, Georgia, Shows

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• [During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Children, Men, Liberty

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• The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Independent, Essence, Liberty

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• Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Might, Bills

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.221, 谷月社

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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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• There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint students and scholars from many lands with America as it is-not as we wish it were or as we might wish foreigners to see it, but exactly as it is-which by my reckoning is an "image" of which no American need be ashamed.

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Land, America

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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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