Quotes About Migration

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

History is all explained by geography.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

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

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

I never had a sense of home.

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

This is her home now--of her own free will.

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.