Emigrant Quotes

#1. Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#2. Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

Lewis Mumford

#3. It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Alfred Polgar

#4. The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

Said Nursi

#5. compatriots needed to weave into the social fabric bakeries close to home or bread trucks that deliver; like a sort of societal gluten, sources of bread constitute networks of sociability that structure daily life.

Steven Laurence Kaplan

#6. I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

Ruth Behar

#7. It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Ann Brashares

#8. I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament]

Maria Martin

#9. The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10. If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

William Faulkner

#11. My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#12. families, revealing insights that cannot be found in published histories. Brown doggedly cross-checks information about each grave in emigrant journals, land records, and nineteenth-century newspapers. A lifetime of searching for graves along the Oregon and California trails has also allowed him

Rinker Buck

#13. Forgive me. It's true. I wander. I wander in my heart and my thoughts. Such is the curse of any emigrant, to abandon one's home and never find another, to always flounder in a sea of remorse.

Robert Alexander

#14. And truly
must it be reduced to this stinking gas,
my body?
To say that I have a body
because I have a stinking gas
that forms
inside me?
(To have done with the judgement of God, 1947)

Antonin Artaud

#15. If at first you don't succeed, think about it.

Mark McCarrell

#16. Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

Ed Zern

#17. Success is never easy, but that is what makes achieving it worthwhile.

Michael L. Slaughter

#18. What I remember are tentacles. Tentacles and teeth.

Daryl Gregory

#19. I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.

Eva Hoffman

#20. The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well, I'll disappoint the audience, they may not like it, I better do something that I think is more commercial.

Mel Brooks

#21. Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.

Richard Salter Storrs

#22. Perhaps, deformed as it was, Earth remained familiar, to be clung to. Or possibly the non-emigrant imagined that the tent of dust would deplete itself finally.

Philip K. Dick

#23. I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise - haven't you?

Scott Lynch

#24. For someone who writes as slowly as I do, each installment is a full day's work. Newspaper novels are painful ... Whether I like what I'm writing or not, whether I'm feeling inspired or not, I have to write an installment every day.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#25. We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.

Chang-rae Lee

#26. Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.' Ross

Winston Graham

#27. Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

Alexei Navalny