Quotes About Living Abroad

#1. I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.

Meta Golding

#2. The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

John Pomfret

#3. I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

Arabella Weir

#4. Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million are overwhelmingly Democrat because people who live in foreign countries have a much different perspective as to what is happening in our country.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#5. Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

Evan Osnos

#6. That's more about lifestyle [Peter Mayles], living abroad. It's about buying a donkey and house in south France, and that's a slightly different thing. A very popular genre but that's not quite my thing.

John Gimlette

#7. Traveling and being in foreign cultures has always been really stimulating for me, partly because, when I'm living abroad, everything is new and like a puzzle to work out, by virtue of it being a foreign culture.

Joshua Marston

#8. I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.

Cary Fukunaga

#9. Living abroad facilitates treating life as a spectacle.

Susan Sontag

#10. The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity.

Preneet Kaur

#11. 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

#12. It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

Anton Chekhov

#13. The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

Hidetoshi Nakata

#14. There were lots of words which had fallen out of my vocabulary, living abroad so long.

Henry Miller

#15. If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.

Pankaj Mishra

#16. I want to create awareness amongst the common people of Pakistan and I generally appeal to the Pakistani people living here and abroad for help and they provide me with the necessary resources.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#17. I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad
Than, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

William Shakespeare

#18. pack from me, his fingers brushing mine, and holds it against my head himself. I put my hand down, too eager to relax my arm to object. Four stands up. I stare at the hem of his T-shirt. Sometimes I see him as just

Veronica Roth

#19. Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his name is now legion; he competes with the dead as well as the living; and the rewards and honours seem attenuated by division.

Walter J. Phillips

#20. When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#21. Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.

John Redwood

#22. Passion is what gives sense to our life.

Dalai Lama

#23. You have heard, no doubt, those tales in which the souls of the dead are said to walk abroad, but did you ever hear tell of the soul of a living person walking, split asunder from its mortal body?

K.B. Goddard

#24. I've been living for too long abroad and aboard,
Methinking the concept of being grounded or floored.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#25. The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

Samuel Smiles

#26. If our foremothers could hear us, they would regret winning the sexual revolution

Rainbow Rowell

#27. Everything around you is your life and your opportunity

Sunday Adelaja

#28. Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.

Anton Du Beke

#29. My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith.

Paul Goodman

#30. Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. ... Nature does not act by purposes.

Erwin Schrodinger

#31. I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.

Olivia Wilde

#32. Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

Gustave De Molinari

#33. Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

Ian Darke

#34. Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.

Timothy Griffin

#35. But there are different kinds of death, David. And I prefer that kind, his kind, to the death I've been fighting all my life.

Don DeLillo