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Quotes About Abroad

I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.
~ Winifred Mary Letts
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
~ Dorothy Thompson
Given my own experience in national security, I have seen while serving abroad just how important women's economic empowerment is to national security.
~ Morgan Ortagus
You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.
~ Ken Loach
the awareness that the distinction between "over here" and "over there," or between "home" and "abroad" is often a false one has never left me.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Okla ete ablotse. 'My spirit has traveled abroad even if my body has not.
~ Catherine E. McKinley
United States and abroad reject and condemn violent jihad. But it doesn't follow
~ Glenn Beck
The Roman philosopher Cicero said of the discipline of reading: No other pleasure suits every occasion, every age or every place. But the study of letters is the food of youth, the delight of old age, a delight at home and no burden abroad; it stays with us at night, and goes with us on our travels, near and far.
~ Gordon MacDonald
U.S. companies need clear guidelines on when they have to turn over electronic communications to law enforcement if that information is stored abroad. The current uncertainty harms U.S. businesses and their customers and does not well-serve our foreign relationships.
~ Suzan DelBene
The first time I'd ever had a go at production or recording, I just recorded in my room. I just put it on Soundcloud because I have family abroad, and I wanted to show them, 'Oh, hi, Uncle Carl, here's some music that I've done,' or whatever.
~ Lapsley
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
~ Irwin Winkler
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.
~ Tom Freston
For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.
~ Jung Chang
I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.
~ Damian Lewis
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
~ Mary McCarthy
We must stand up to anti-Semitism at home and abroad.
~ Mikie Sherrill
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
~ Washington Irving
No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth to hold his peace. No man safely ruleth but he who loveth to be subject. No man safely commandeth but he who loveth to obey.
~ Thomas a Kempis
It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.
~ Harley Pasternak
I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.
~ Albert Reynolds
When a great truth gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it.
~ Colum McCann
Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world—oh, woe is me!—and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!
~ Charles Dickens
My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
~ Zinedine Zidane