Quotes About Foreigner

To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

That is the great thing about being a foreigner—that you get to spend your life with a whole new set of cultural attachments in addition to the ones you inherited at birth.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

I was evidently expected, for when I got near the door I faced a cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress--white undergarment with a long double apron, front, and back, of coloured stuff fitting almost too tight for modesty. When I came close she bowed and said, The Herr Englishman? Yes, I said, Jonathan Harker. She smiled, and gave some message

In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.

It is hard for me to imagine what it means to be a complete foreigner, a person to whom no one shows any sign of recognition.

The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.'

You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake.

Harold didn't need to hire expensive lawyers to dream up a credible defence, though – what hostage is going to refuse to take an oath to a man who is holding him hostage? And what jurisdiction did this Norman foreigner have in England?

Just as any foreigner is not fully human.]

He looked to be a little over forty. Mouth somehow twisted. Clean-shaven. Dark-haired. Right eye black, left -for some reason- green. Dark eyebrows, but one higher than the other. In short, a foreigner.

Ka?dy z literatów pomyÅ›laÅ' co innego. Berlioz: "Nie, to jednak cudzoziemiec!", a Bezdomny: "O, cholera!...".

Ekspedienci z dziaÅ'u rybnego osÅ'upieli z no?ami w dÅ'oniach, lila cudzoziemiec odwróciÅ' siÄ™ w stronÄ™ rabusiów i wtedy wyszÅ'o na jaw, ?e Behemot nie miaÅ' racji – twarzy liliowego nie tylko nie brakowaÅ'o niczego, ale raczej czegoÅ› byÅ'o w niej za du?o – za du?o obwisÅ'ych policzków i rozbieganych oczu.

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

Pero un extranjero en una tierra extranjera, no es nadie; los hombres no lo conocen, y no conocer es no importar.

In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.

If you left off traditions because you didn't know why they started you'd be no better than a foreigner.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

I met a travler from an ancient land.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what's really happening here. They think Paris is a socialist museum where people are exceptionally good at eating small bits of chocolate and tying scarves.

As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.