Quotes About Migration

We are so accustomed to thinking of European civilization as the vanguard of the world that we forget that for much of human history, the European peninsula was at the receiving end of the miracles of the East. Over the millennia, innovations such as Mesopotamian agriculture, the Phoenician alphabet, Greek philosophy, and Arab bookkeeping all flowed from east to west. Both Christianity and Islam followed the same route. So did wheat, olives, sugar, and spices.

Erik the Red left Norway for frontier Iceland 'on account of some killings' and after a while he had to leave Iceland on account of some more killings; he needed a fresh start after his first fresh start.

and the bakers went south to Rome because Romans, it turned out, loved German bread.

It was not uncommon to see the letters G.T.T. painted or carved on the doorways of cabins in Tennessee and other parts of the country especially in the south. It was a sure sign that the occupants had picked up and were as they said "Gone to Texas". It was a popular expression for those people who had committed crimes or owed money or just did not want to be found.

dès qu'on parle de quitter la France tous les Français trouvent ça formidable c'est un point caractéristique chez eux, même si c'est pour aller au Groenland ils trouvent ça formidable

the twentieth century was best represented by an unwilling traveler. "I mean, think of the millions of soldiers mobilized by wars. And all the people made homeless because of them. Now the world is full of people who don't belong where they end up and long for the places where they did.

to found a new home in the western continent beyond the ocean, a new fatherland free from tyranny . . . guided by firm convictions and upright motives, not by the whim of the moment.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

So, for a variety of reasons, ranging from convenience to fear to economics, people stayed in their own neighborhood, loving it, enjoying the closeness, the friendliness, the familiarity, and trying to save enough money to move out.

Finally, in Bosnia I forgot my own name. That's an excellent basis for starting this course, I thought. Just as the thought of you is an excellent basis for a start. So as not to forget your name as well, I had to keep writing it down on water. On the Sava River. I don't know if you know that forests migrate?

There was always talk of Koreans going back home, but in a way, all of them had lost the home in their minds for good.

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

We are all migrants through time.

when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

Los economistas han demostrado que es, por ejemplo, lo que ocurre en la emigración: las personas emigran no porque sufran una privación absoluta, sino una privación relativa; no porque sean pobres, sino porque son conscientes de que pueden vivir mejor. Cuanto más contacto tenemos unos con otros, más aspiraciones genera ese contacto.

Economists and sociologists have concluded that what drives migration is not absolute deprivation,50 or poverty,

every year 65 million people are added to the world's urban population, equivalent to adding seven cities the size of Chicago or five the size of London annually.

Like some kind of migratory bird, money has long had special places to go when it wishes to reproduce in peace.

WE all need a story of where we came from and how we got here.

My ancestors came over on the boat. Oh, not the Mayflower, but the boat after that. What did your ancestors come over on, Godfrey?

15 percent of the adult population in major cities like Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London.