Quotes About Foreign

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

I will talk of things heavenly, or things earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; things sacred, or things profane; things past, or things to come; things foreign, or things at home; things more essential, or things circumstantial.

The way our group or class does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus to prescribe the directions and limits of observation and memory. What is strange or foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the groups) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect.

Nearly 60 percent of the American economy is tied up in foreign trade, which means millions of U.S. jobs and families are linked to the undulations of the global market.31

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

He further disclosed that before leaving the NSA, he had gained access to the lists of computers that the NSA had penetrated in foreign countries.

From the decks of the warships the foreign sailors watched the massacre through binoculars and took pictures. The navy bands played late and phonographs were set up on the ships and aimed at the quay. Caruso sang from Pagliacci all night across a harbor filled with bloated corpses. An admiral going to dine on another ship was late because a woman's body fouled his propeller.

T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.

For this I weep all my days and throughout my lifetime grieve that I swam from my own lands and came from familiar lands towards these strange doors to these foreign gates.

I just can't imagine it. I can't imagine you on the other side of the world, at a pay phone on the street.

The national growth policy is discussed, debated and decided on the foreign soil amongst the only few most privileged people and the domestic population at large don't find anything wrong in it surprisingly.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

It's quite clear : an outsider can , on principle, only value foreign literature that translates well; the truly great artists of language and the fecund experimenters are inaccessible to him; are usually unknown to him in fact !

I got hit in the face with quarters overseas.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Asking presidential candidates whether they support or would change past foreign policy decisions is the most common line of questioning among members of the media. It's also the most pointless.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.

Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

There are not a lot of German players out there who are successful in a foreign country.

The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China.

America's intervention, Halberstam said on a later occasion, occurred "in the embers of another colonial war.