Quotes About Expatriates

My internship with Oberoi hotels and later working with the ITC group in Jaipur helped me get a better exposure; I got to meet expatriates and get acquainted with people from different parts of the country.

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

No country relies on migrants more than the United Arab Emirates, where 88 percent of the population and nearly the entire private workforce is foreign-born.

However much Grant enjoyed his Parisian rambles and glimpses of quotidian life, he was mystified about the charms American expatriates found there. I have walked over the city so thoroughly that the streets are quite familiar to me, he told Buck, his provincial roots showing. The city is beautiful, but I do not see the inducements for so many Americans remaining here year after year who are not engaged in business. I certainly should prefer any of our large cities as a residence.p871

Do all the Americans in Paris just shoot at each other all the time?

As a kid, I wanted to be part of the Lost Generation who came to France.

Back home the election was over; the country had a new president: 'Mr Roosevelt' he was called at first, then 'Roosevelt,' then 'that Roosevelt,' and finally just 'he' or 'him' by mouths that twisted bitterly on the pronoun, for the westering boats were crowded with expatriates—"A traitor to his class," they said.

We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

I realize that I will always find respite amongst the migrants, the refugees, the expatriates, the homeless, the pirates. I will always be the fence-sitter. I will pass as I see fit and fail to pass when I was really hoping I would and refuse to pass when it serves my purposes.

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.

He had become the simple philosopher king, adored by his ragtag followers of expatriates, retirees, beatniks and natives. Despite his cultivated aura of otherworldliness, he fit comfortably into their island world. On St. John, the father of the atomic bomb had somehow found just the right refuge from his inner demons.

He had become the simple philosopher king, adored by his ragtag followers of expatriates, retirees, beatniks and natives.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

professional expatriates; you could drink there for a week and never hear two words in Japanese. Ratz was tending bar, his prosthetic arm jerking monotonously as he filled a tray of glasses with draft Kirin. He saw Case and smiled, his teeth a webwork of East European steel and brown decay. Case found a place at the bar, between the unlikely tan

drug deficiency." It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for professional expatriates; you could drink there for a week and never hear two words in Japanese.

The sad engineer would never go back to England; he would become one of these elderly expatriates who hide out in remote countries, with odd sympathies, a weakness for the local religion, an unreasonable anger, and the kind of total recall that drives curious strangers away.

and Cate Blanchett in the same kitchen, for a cup of tea and a chat. The post-war Australian expatriates were looked at with suspicion by their countrymen early on. Later, they got too much favour. My own view is that, of those among us who sailed away to England in the early 1960s, those who soon sailed back again did best. This especially applied to the theatre. In earlier times, a long and powerfully