Quotes About Emigrate

#1. The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Charles Sturt

#2. Nor was Jabotinsky enticed by the idea of Arab resettlement. People might call him an extremist, he said, but at least he had never dreamed of asking Arabs in a Jewish state to emigrate.

Hillel Halkin

#3. Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

Daniel Alarcon

#4. America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

Alison Lurie

#5. You want to know what it's like to emigrate to Saturn system? Imagine spending six years in a straitjacket tied to the outside of a skyscraper, with only a couple dozen similar lunatics for company.

Charles Stross

#6. You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.

George Harrison

#7. My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

Peter Jackson

#8. Emigrate or Degenerate.

Philip K. Dick

#9. As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Frederic Raphael

#10. My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

Alan Bradley

#11. It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.

Golo Mann

#12. America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'

Ivan Krastev

#13. I've been in love once and if I felt it coming on again I tell you I'd emigrate.

Agatha Christie

#14. Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

John Maynard Keynes

#15. Tomorrow night President Obama will announce his new immigration plan. Obama's favorite part of his new immigration plan is that he gets to emigrate to another country. He's tired of all this.

Conan O'Brien

#16. It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

Charles Sturt

#17. I am not Amish enough to emigrate when my way of life is threatened.

G.R. Reader

#18. I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before.

Isabel Allende

#19. In an old culture like Europe, everything has already been done. For people who always complain about everything purportedly being so bad, I want to ask why they don't pack up their things and emigrate.

Carie Maas

#20. But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Hugh Miller

#21. You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'

Cameron Crowe

#22. The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

E. O. Wilson

#23. You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Tim Cahill

#24. I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes.

Lefty Gomez

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Victor Koo

#26. Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

Miguel De Cervantes

#27. Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

#28. All the eyes of God are looking through all the stars, or looking at the stars through our eyes. There's only the eye of God everywhere, seeing and being in perfection always.

Frederick Lenz

#29. It is far easier to make war than peace.

Georges Clemenceau

#30. If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

Freda Adler

#31. Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best.

M. Lincoln Schuster

#32. It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

Mark Yarnell