Top 27 Emigrant's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament]
Maria Martin
#3. Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
Alexei Navalny
#5. The two plants had a gentleman's agreement going, like the railroad companies and the real-estate speculators in the old days, whereby they progressed together up the hill and into the yard.
Nicholson Baker
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler
#9. And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.
E. M. Forster
#10. 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
#11. I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
Barbara Boxer
#12. I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.
Steve Buscemi
#13. Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence
the drama of being her
was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.
Jonathan Franzen
#14. You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
Katherine Mansfield
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Annie has brown hair and brown eyes. And she smiles a lot. I would like Annie if I liked girls.
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
#18. would show that inside twenty-one feet against a knife, trying to get a gun out is typically a losing bet, especially if you're backing straight up rather than getting off the line.
Barry Eisler
#19. 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
#20. You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
Scott Speedman
#21. When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."
Alexandra Daddario
#22. Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.
James Lipton
#24. I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!'
Sean Paul
#25. 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
#26. It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.
Alfred Polgar
#27. 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
