Top 61 Quotes About Passports
#1. Reading inspires us to reach further, imagine more, and search for our passports.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#2. Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.
Narendra Modi
#3. We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
Rand Paul
#4. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
Peggy McIntosh
#5. In 1983, all of us had U.S. passports, but because there was so much tension between America and the U.S.S.R., we were announced as a Canadian group.
Paul Horn
#6. I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.
Alfonso Cuaron
#7. She'd thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago - only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.
Catherynne M Valente
#8. I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.
Thomas Piketty
#9. I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.
Robin Morgan
#10. Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.
Elton Gallegly
#11. Mr. Stanley if you had stayed for your entire time in Hue at the mini-motel where they do not ask for passports or visas." "Right. We should have done that. Anything else?" "Yes. How does your lady friend,
Nelson DeMille
#12. Government corruption made it possible to obtain authentic passports and visas, which were much more reliable than fake ones.
Kenneth Eade
#13. Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.
Adam Gopnik
#14. As for women, whether they know it or not, they are name nomads. Their surnames are here today, gone tomorrow. Throughout their lives, women fill out official forms in different ways, apply for new passports and design several signatures.
Elif Shafak
#15. Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders.
Peter Landesman
#16. The birds never needed passports ... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of ... free movement for me.
Peter Sis
#17. Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.
Lionel Barber
#19. Every naked chick in the room ran toward the scale. It was just titties and passports everywhere.
Ronda Rousey
#20. With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'
Brooklyn Decker
#21. You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.
Jamie Tworkowski
#22. When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.
Arsene Wenger
#23. ...and lovers of romance novels and dissident rebels and brothers in Christ and druids and shamans and aphrodisiac vendors and scriveners and purveyors of real fake passports and gun-runners and porters and bric-a-brac trades and mining prospectors short on liquid assets and Siamese twins...
Fiston Mwanza Mujila
#24. I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
Emily Mortimer
#25. To me, terrorists should not be able to hide behind their passports and their citizenship, and that includes U.S. citizens, whether they are overseas or whether they are here in the United States. What we need to do is to apply the appropriate tool and the appropriate response.
John O. Brennan
#26. The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.
Douglas Adams
#27. If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.
Robert Krulwich
#29. With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.
Des Browne
#30. If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
Yann Martel
#31. To them, pain was a country they had heard of, maybe watched a show about on TV, but one whose stamp had not yet been made in their passports.
Janet Fitch
#32. However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
Ibrahim Rugova
#33. But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.
Elizabeth Bowen
#34. Passports were originally created to provide safe conduct in time of war. During most of the eighteenth century it seldom occurred to Europeans to abandon their travels in a foreign country which their own was fighting.
Murray N. Rothbard
#35. She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her highly unnecessary, like some legal routine or the difficulty of getting passports. Her interest in expiation quickly vanished in the face of its actuality.
Mary McCarthy
#36. I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#37. They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations.
Ernest Hemingway,
#38. In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!
Alan Parsons
#39. No living person could disappear like Sofia. She'd have a go-bag stashed somewhere. Money and passports and disguises, with just enough ice to evaporate.
Cindy Skaggs
#40. The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.
Chris Cornell
#41. I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
Herman Melville
#42. Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
Rabindranath Tagore
#43. I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
Amit Bhatia
#45. Money was never a problem, passports were never required. There were always new places to dance.
Tim O'Brien
#46. They'd retreated to the country with two passports only. From the outside it looked like death. People could pound the walls all they wanted, but they'd never find the door. Nobody could guess at the gardens inside.
Janet Fitch
#47. Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.
Seamus Heaney
#48. All effective actions require the passport of morality.
Saul
#49. Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.
Katharine Brush
#51. When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#52. Without a passport humans wouldn't know where they're from, who they are or who their enemy is, and their enemy wouldn't know why they had an enemy, what language they spoke, and where best to avoid.
The passport is said to be what makes them free, but if freedom is given, freedom cannot be free.
Craig Stone
#53. I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
Andrew Young
#54. I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.
Bo Derek
#56. I found someones passport on the ground tonight. Where do you sell these things?
Dane Cook
#58. If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.
Chuck D
#60. A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.
Lemony Snicket
#61. The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
Theodore Parker
