Quotes About Foreigner

But I'm not running away. I'm running toward... toward adventure, toward discovery, toward diversity. And while I was in Mexico I discovered something intruiging: Once I leave the U.S., I am not bound by the rules of my culture. And when I am a foreigner in another country, I am exempt from the local rules. This extraordinary situation means that there are no rules in my life. I am free to live by the standards and ideals and rules I create for myself.

As 1917 wore on, antiwar rallies drew larger crowds. Charlotte Despard and several other women formed a new organization, the Women's Peace Crusade. "I should like the words 'alien' and 'foreigner' to be banished from the language," she said in one speech. "We are all members of the same family.

Reading is the solitary essential pastime to which all summer houses are peculiarly dedicated. I became a foreigner. For myself, that is what a writer is - a man living on the other side of a frontier.

That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.

Englezul ?i-n cas? goal? e ca la curtea regal?.

I actually love the challenge of being in a new place where I'm so obviously the foreigner.

When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

Moi, je suis l'écrivain, la pute, l'étrangère, la femme libre aussi. Je ne suis pas le « bien » qu'on possède et qu'on exhibe, qui console. Je ne sais pas consoler.

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a uselessly existing ship that floats on the surface of everything.

Outrora eu era daqui, e hoje regresso estrangeiro, Forasteiro do que vejo e ouço, velho de mim. Já vi tudo, ainda o que nunca vi, nem o que nunca verei. Eu reinei no que nunca fui.

I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived with this all my life - this divide, this bifurcation. And in Italy, I don't feel it. There's none of that tension, only the expectation I place on myself to speak the language well. I find it relaxing. Something drops away, and I observe.

It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

dollars for this single piece of fruit, and carried it into my room in the Very Charming Hanoi Hotel. Like any good foreigner who's read his health warnings

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

I always feel like a foreigner in America.

Being a foreigner bad guy doesn't have to be my destiny, and I can be much more than that.

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

To be a foreigner may be an advantage but disadvantage as well. It was advantage for me for sure.

It's not easy for a foreigner to come to England and win the respect of your team-mates, of the fans, and of the English people.

I've never been a great shooter. I'm not a regular foreigner player.