Immigration Money Quotes

#1. I came to quite an opposite conclusion, and have not wavered from it since. I do not think[Pg 116] there will ever be a large tide of immigration into California; and I think, moreover, that, ten years hence, the present owners of land there will be glad to take far less than they ask for it now.

Edward Money

#2. I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.

Amy Bloom

#3. Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

Michael Gove

#5. If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

Tim Fargo

#6. My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands - 'Send money' - and prosperity for ever - 'Put food in front of this picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese- American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks. (1983: 58)

Maxine Hong Kingston

#7. People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.

John McWhorter

#8. [Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants.

William J. Clinton

#9. Sounds like a thankless job.
Sometimes the most important ones are.

Regina Jennings

#10. my heart aches for sisters more than anything
it aches for women helping women
like flowers ache for spring

Rupi Kaur

#11. These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

Dylan Thomas

#12. the air would get so heavy with moisture he imagined he could feel each bloated molecule as it toppled into his lungs.

Anthony Doerr