Quotes About Expatriates

#1. World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.

David Bryant

#2. The sad engineer would never go back to England; he would become one of these elderly expatriates who hide out in remote countries, with odd sympathies, a weakness for the local religion, an unreasonable anger, and the kind of total recall that drives curious strangers away.

Paul Theroux

#3. It is the duty of every citizen /resident of any country , nationals as well as expatriates to know the basics of the governing laws of the country one resides.

Ignorance of the law or unawareness cannot be pleaded to escape liability.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#4. The American School of Paris is one of those strange places in foreign cities where expatriates huddle together in a defensive circle and try to pretend they're still back at home.
I saw it as a place for lost souls.

Amy Plum

#5. I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

Isaac Asimov

#6. I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.

Bob Shacochis

#7. Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

Tony Campolo

#8. It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Cyril Connolly

#9. Drug deficiency. It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for professional expatriates; you could drink there for a week and never hear two words in Japanese.

William Gibson

#10. So you settle to be a slave, eh? Yes, lord, no, lord, let me hold your prick while you piss all over me, lord?

Bernard Cornwell

#11. There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Alexander Chase

#12. Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans.

Deyth Banger

#13. Being here with you, smiling and laughing, it's the first time I've done that since you left that it wasn't fake. I need you back in my life.

Alison G. Bailey

#14. I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

Madonna Ciccone

#15. And suddenly it was all too much for him. He felt sad and misplaced, with the abrupt, overwhelming, dizzying sadness that comes over people in countries not their own, which has none of the richness of feeling that usually comes with sadness but is rather a kind of exhaustion.

Caleb Crain

#16. Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It sees no distinction in adding story to story ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it ...

Abraham Lincoln

#17. You were right," Eve spoke through numb lips. "I should have stayed away.

Cynthia Eden

#18. I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

Jarvis Cocker