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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.

  Stefan Zweig

  Men, Soul, Needs

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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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• 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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• 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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• My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Years, Cameras, France

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• When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

  Erma Bombeck

  Travel, Home, Humor

  Erma Bombeck (1997). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.2, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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• They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Squad, Needs

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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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 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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• 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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• If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Writing, Men, Wife

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.3

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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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• 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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• I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mother, Running, Daughter

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• You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

  Tony Abbott

  America, Trying, Illegal

  "Tony Abbott blames carbon tax for 'uncertainty'". "7.30" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2012.

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