Living Abroad Quotes

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Mary Ritter Beard

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry Tillman

Funny, Life, Success

"In Your 60s". Book by Judy Valon, 2009.

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Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Judith Thurman

Travel, Adventure, Dreamer

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Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.

John Redwood

Home, Government, Spending

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The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

Hidetoshi Nakata

Communication, Years, Lessons

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Traveling and being in foreign cultures has always been really stimulating for me, partly because, when I'm living abroad, everything is new and like a puzzle to work out, by virtue of it being a foreign culture.

Joshua Marston

Work Out, Culture, Virtue

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I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.

Cary Fukunaga

Country, Patriotic, Thinking

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That's more about lifestyle [Peter Mayles], living abroad. It's about buying a donkey and house in south France, and that's a slightly different thing. A very popular genre but that's not quite my thing.

John Gimlette

House, Different, Buying

Source: www.identitytheory.com

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Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents a new political space for our migrants, an opportunity to bridge the gap between two societies, those living in Mexico and those living abroad.

Ruben Aguilar

Opportunity, Bridges, Two

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Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars, and a beachside music festival before thousands of cheering fans. He conveys the thrills and challenges of living abroad, the confusions and regrets, and most of all the opportunity to become the person we always hoped to be.

Peter Hessler

Regret, Cheer, Opportunity

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The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting Indias diversity.

Preneet Kaur

People, Diversity, Community

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I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

Arabella Weir

Father, Long, Childhood

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Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million are overwhelmingly Democrat because people who live in foreign countries have a much different perspective as to what is happening in our country.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Country, Military, People

Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

Anton Chekhov

Maids, Faces, Exhausted

Letter to I.P. Chekhov, October 2, 1897.

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