Top 52 Migrant Quotes
#1. He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate
Salman Rushdie
#2. As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.
Pat Conroy
#3. You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.
Liz Kendall
#4. When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
Dallas Willard
#5. I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like a cloud for ten years, following the food supply. I was a hunter, gatherer, an academic migrant.
Sandra Cisneros
#6. The sheriffs swore in new deputies and ordered new rifles; and the comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
John Steinbeck
#7. The receding waves of foreign peon labor are leaving California agriculture to the mercies of our own people. The old methods of intimidation and starvation perfected against the foreign peons are being used against the new white migrant workers. But they will not be successful.
John Steinbeck
#8. We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn ... just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.
Barbara Jordan
#9. We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.
Richard Flanagan
#10. The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.
Luis Valdez
#11. As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
Vicente Fox
#12. Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.
Sasa Stanisic
#13. It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker.
Trevanian
#14. One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.
Ruben Hinojosa
#15. It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
Richard Leakey
#16. They would become the migrant labourers who made the "economic miracles" in Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland,
Helen Graham
#17. Persons with Disability (PWD), Ex-Serviceman (XSM), Kashmiri Migrant (KM). Please refer to the Norms for the same. There are 394 vacancies for the above position (200 Electronics, 120 Mechanical, 57 Computer Science,
Anonymous
#18. How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#19. My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.
Al Sharpton
#20. My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
Caitlin Flanagan
#21. I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#22. In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
Jan Schakowsky
#23. My non American viewers. Who understand that the world does not consist solely of a single nation sailing across an infinite sea of migrant workers. Will no doubt have heard that the waters surrounding Brisbane got tired of waiting for people to hit the beach and decided to bring the party to us.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#24. Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
Wendell Berry
#25. The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.
Alan Huffman
#26. There's no such thing as a young refugee; every migrant has a past they've fled from, and how can you be young when you already have one life behind you?
Lev Golinkin
#27. I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.
Junot Diaz
#28. Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.
Laila Lalami
#29. Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
Amin Maalouf
#30. Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.
Ruth First
#31. No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.
Warren Farrell
#32. When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system.
Irene Fernandez
#33. Haris...as a naive migrant
who just moved here,
relying on you tapered worries.
Tammy Sulit
#34. Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.
Alan Huffman
#35. I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#36. These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;
Robert Macfarlane
#37. The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.
Francois Hollande
#38. I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.
Stephen Colbert
#39. Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#40. Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#41. Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents a new political space for our migrants, an opportunity to bridge the gap between two societies, those living in Mexico and those living abroad.
Ruben Aguilar
#42. Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.
Debra Dean
#43. The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
#44. Now we're guests in a faraway land nearly 40 years on.
No trees, no cool breeze,
no best friends.
Only endless days spent in sending SMSs...
Nabeel Philip Mohan
#45. You are...the embodiment
of immediate good karma.
The equalizer between bottom
feeders and the sanctimonious
cogs in the system.
G.A.P. Gutierrez
#46. People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.
Aysha Taryam
#47. You stand for what is right-
for the patient and the staff.
Pressures of work may down you,
maybe bent but not broken.
Mujel Hasan
#48. The Arab Spring whose seeds failed to bloom anything other than a chaotic mess that requires only blood to grow has contributed immensely to the rising numbers of these migrants.
Aysha Taryam
#49. Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one's infection.
Aysha Taryam
#50. [Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed.
Armineonila M.
#52. Bob, I am grateful for your
Three letter name.
It's another reminder of home
Of a world predictable
Of a life I had.
Wilfred Waters
