Quotes About Foreign

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

It was good to travel to the other side of the world.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

No one places any trust in the words of the Americans.

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

My contention is that cooks who add foreign ingredients to chutneys do so to hide their own ineptitude.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

And Professor Tongun, from Sudan, "Like a tree in the forest, America doesn't hear foreign suffering.

My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands - 'Send money' - and prosperity for ever - 'Put food in front of this picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese- American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks. (1983: 58)

There is no calm for those who are uprooted. They are wanderers, homesick and defiant. Love itself is helpless to heal them though the dust rises with every footfall - drifts down the corridors - settles on branch or cornice - each breath an inhalation from the past so that the lungs, like a miner's, are dark with bygone times. Whatever they eat, whatever they drink, is never the bread of home or the corn of their own valleys. It is never the wine of their own vineyards. It is a foreign brew.