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Quotes About Foreign

We have so many foreign fans, I think we should take the movie to them. I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great, instead of demolishing a city, if we, through a 'Sharknado,' could rebuild it? Wouldn't it be fantastic if we went to Italy and a 'Sharknado' straightened the Tower of Pisa?'
~ Ian Ziering
The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.
~ Daniel Libeskind
As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.
~ John O. Brennan
We want to defend the rights of Malaysians. We don't want to sell chunks of this country to foreign companies who will develop whole towns.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.
~ Theodor Mommsen
President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.
~ Paula Poundstone
That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
~ Lyn Nofziger
Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.
~ Brian Behlendorf
An intensification of trade or geopolitical tensions - with negative repercussions for global growth and risk appetite - could affect economies that are highly dependent on foreign demand or external financing.
~ Gita Gopinath
Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.
~ Tim Bishop
We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.
~ Townsend Harris
Managing the relationship with a giant neighbour has been central to our foreign policy for more than a century. Trade and investment, as well as people, have flowed back and forth across the border, and the U.S. is, by far, our biggest trading partner.
~ Margaret MacMillan
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
~ Carson McCullers
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.
~ Simon Winchester
It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.
~ Frances Mayes
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
~ Russell Baker
If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
~ George Bernard Shaw
All of life is a foreign country.
~ Jack Kerouac
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
~ Mason Cooley
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
~ William Wordsworth
They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
~ Mark Twain
It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.
~ Peg Bracken