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Quotes About Foreigner

nunca cometía la equivocación de ser demasiado educado con un hombre de la Fundación. Él podía ser un extranjero, pero un hombre siempre es un hombre.
~ Isaac Asimov
Mi vida ha sido una serie de navegaciones, he ido de un lado a otro en esta tierra. He sido extranjero sin saber que tenia raices profundas...
~ Isabel Allende
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.
~ Meg Rosoff
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
~ Ludwig von Mises
When you're the foreigner and your kids are the natives, they realize you're clueless much sooner than they ordinarily would. I'm pretty sure mine skipped the Mommy-is-infallible stage entirely.
~ Pamela Druckerman
The smell of poison and death clings to any stranger, and people have become allergic to outsiders without realizing it.
~ Kobo Abe
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he's a foreigner
~ Robert Mugabe
Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred that they feel against the ruling power.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The General Graf, a high-ranking officer of the Reichswehr, accepted the new government as it was his duty to do, and if he had any reservations in his mind no foreigner would be permitted a glimpse of them. He had no apologies to make, but took the dignified position that what Germans did became right as soon as they had done it.
~ Upton Sinclair
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
~ Gertrude Stein
Quisiera ser extranjero para irme a mi país".
~ Gioconda Belli
What about Kost, sir? He's a foreigner, you know." "Yes," said the inspector, allowing to pass unchallenged the usual English implication that foreigners are always either lunatics or criminals or both, "but the motive?
~ Gladys Mitchell
Why is she afraid? he asked. She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before. Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.
~ James Clavell
The Premier League is one of the best in the world, without a doubt. The stadiums are always full, and the atmosphere is incredible, but not every footballer is able to play in England. The character can be difficult for a foreigner.
~ Robinho
It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.
~ Mark Twain
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
~ Bram Stoker
He breathed deeply when he reached the sand, tasting salt in the air, feeling like the foreigner he was.
~ Nicholas Sparks
En las comunidades judías siempre hay un extranjero. Y el año venidero el anfitrión será el huésped.
~ Noah Gordon
Marco Polo aprendeu a ultrapassar a sua condição de estrangeiro no Império Mongol, para chegar à conclusão de que, agora que estava em casa, tinha-se tornado uma vez mais um estrangeiro.
~ Laurence Bergreen
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Unless you empower your domestic investor and domestic industry and domestic confidence in the sector, no foreigner is going to come.
~ Piyush Goyal
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
~ Hamid Karzai