Quotes About Expat

#1. Live as a stranger on the earth.
For this earth of ours is no planet.

Rasu-Yong Tugen

#2. Westerners who go native with Chinese ideas are called 'eggs' - outside white, inside yellow -, and are often systematically excluded from their expat community's activities, let alone the financial support system.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#3. Some girls think marrying an expat is the road to riches, but that's not true." Sumi

Angela Nicoara

#4. 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

#5. Whatever," Bruiser grumbled. "You look like Fabio." "Thank you," Drew said through a flattered smile. The dick.

T.S. Joyce

#6. I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.

Alison Singh Gee

#7. I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.

Adelaide Kane

#8. I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

Andrea McLean

#9. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.

Barbara Haines Howett

#10. That's the shock, and the surprise, to a lot of repatriates: No one back home cares. There's an initial, shallow interest in what life is like abroad, but most Americans aren't actually interested, at all.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#11. If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder.

Debasish Mridha

#12. At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

Jerry Brown

#13. The good news is that being in gratitude does not require time and money. All it requires is an attitude of being grateful.

Vishwas Chavan

#14. Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

Graham Coxon

#15. I'm very scary. I'm a menace.

Kevin Hart

#16. Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

Preston Manning

#17. I am all of my characters, but none of them in particular. I'm an expat in San Miguel de Allende, the community I write about.
My characters are never black and white--I'm interested in shades of gray and the way people rationalize the bad acts they commit.

John Scherber

#18. And if anyone ever pressures you or hurts you . . .
I will tie them to a tree and burn them alive.

Emma Chase

#19. The good is the greatest rival of the best.

Nellie L. McClung

#20. The sixth gift is Joy. May it keep your heart open and filled with light.

Charlene Costanzo