Migration Quotes - Page 4

• The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

  Manmohan Singh

  Numbers, Order, Law

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Country, Bird, Soul

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

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• The world has changed around Europe. It is not only the migration crisis that has shown Europe is not up for challenge.

  Viktor Orban

  Europe, Challenges, World

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Texas, Order, Understanding

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• Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Mean

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Religious, Community, Minorities

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• It is clear to us that we will have to become more involved in our neighboring regions so that the migration pressures aren't so high there. Of course the budget negotiations will be difficult, as they always are.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Pressure, Negotiation, Difficult

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the issues that has been an issue in how we deal with net migration up until now is that we haven't been able to have any control over freedom of movement from the European Union. We will have that control in the future once we leave the EU.

  Theresa May

  Issues, Movement, Unions

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• "Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

  Hassan Blasim

  Secret, Borders, Degradation

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Fall, Men

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• To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.

  William Beebe

  Writing, Wind, Wings

  William Beebe (1954). “A Naturalist's Life of New York”

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• December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down Deepens, and dusk embues me where I stand, With grave diminishings of green and brown, Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Twilight, Land, Sky

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

  Ronald Reagan

  Law, Immigration, United States

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.858, Best Books on

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• The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

  Cate Marvin

  Book, Track, World

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Garden, Rocks, Cells

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• Now Europe are experiencing a wave of eroding solidarity, first of certain societies and then entire governments. At the same time, we have two giant new challenges to meet: the migration movement and terror. And then Great Britain is thinking about leaving the EU. That should suffice as a description.

  Martin Schulz

  Thinking, Government, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Today, it is more important than ever to strengthen transatlantic relations. Only by co-operating closely can the EU and the US continue to make a difference when dealing with unprecedented challenges such as Daesh, the threats to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, climate change and migration.

  Donald Tusk

  Integrity, Differences, Ukraine

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.

  Hassan Blasim

  Media, Secret, News

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Adventure, Fire

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 1

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• We have to cease the migration of Arab potential to the west; they should be respected in their own countries.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Country, West, Should

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• I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

  Martha Stewart

  Parks, Glaciers, Bears

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• In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

  Michael Gove

  Order, Needs, Unions

  "Michael Gove tells the BBC that Boris Johnson wasn't up to the Tory leader job". Interview with Laura Kuenssberg, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• In the Middle East - and this is prior to the migration - you had almost no chance of coming into the United States. Christians from Syria, of which there were many, many of their heads ... chopped off. If you were a Muslim from Syria, it was one of the easiest places to come in (to the U.S.). I thought that was deplorable.

  Donald Trump

  Christian, Middle East, United States

  Source: townhall.com

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• Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All kinds of danger wait for him on the Earth. . . . We have said a great deal about the advantages of migration into space, but not all can be said or even imagined.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Moon, Space

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