Quotes About Emigration

#1. How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

Daniel Alarcon

#2. Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

Vayalar Ravi

#3. It's the worst yet. I'm in TEFL City.'

'TEFL City' because we called those times 'TEFL-pondering mornings', when your only option felt like emigration and teaching.

Emma Jane Unsworth

#4. I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

Jon Stewart

#5. The most persecuted European national minority in the second half of the 1930s was not the four hundred thousand or so German Jews (the number declining because of emigration) but the six hundred thousand or so Soviet Poles (the number declining because of executions).1

Timothy Snyder

#6. I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

Ameen Rihani

#7. Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#8. I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke

#9. [The proposed establishment] will have a ... tendency to banish our Citizens ... To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.

James Madison

#10. There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was incredibly difficult. I'm not the only one interested in this as a filmmaker - other Cuban filmmakers have dealt with it, too, because it's such a part of our reality.

Fernando Perez

#11. People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse.

Shane MacGowan

#12. The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

Henry A. Kissinger

#13. As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

Lee Child

#14. A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Thomas Malthus

#15. ... whichever of my friends was and is sensitive, touchy even, had to choose... emigration... and I emigrated inwardly, here to the pub for example...

Bohumil Hrabal

#16. I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke

#17. It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.

Martin Rees

#18. It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain; he will change the climate there, and emigration will set that way.

Edward Taylor

#19. It is enough. This is the right place." Brigham Young uttered those words when his wagon reached the mouth of Emigration Canyon and he gazed out at this valley.

Andrew Hunt

#20. We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

Jo Grimond

#21. History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!

Charles Stross

#22. I managed to convince myself that I'd left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from? they ask. Does it matter? I answer.
But it does.

Kapka Kassabova

#23. I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Harold E. Varmus

#24. [On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?

Doris Lessing

#25. Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.

Tariq Ali

#26. Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia.

Pope Francis

#27. Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.

Fernando Perez

#28. The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.

Thomas Malthus

#29. I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

Ken Bruen

#30. On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

Charles Sturt

#31. Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#32. Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

John Berger

#33. The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

George William Norris

#34. When she looked longer at herself in her new dress, it was she but she living a different life, the life she would have lived if she had stayed in Prague.

Milan Kundera

#35. Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#36. History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Claudio Magris

#37. She felt happy in Paris, happier than here, but only Prague held her by a secret bond of beauty.

Milan Kundera

#38. I hear the tread of pioneers
Of nations yet to be,
The first low wash of waves where soon
Shall roll a human sea.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#39. The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it
while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation
takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Norman Manea

#40. The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Thomas Malthus

#41. Takes a special kind to go
another kind to stay here

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Nowhere do such patriots so embrace
the leaving of the place

Kate Tough

#42. 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

#43. It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

Milan Kundera

#44. Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.

Caryl Phillips

#45. Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching wide and blue and hungry. One would think it to be infinite. But we, of course, know better.

Tanya Moir