Quotes About Migration

I'm not from this Earth - I'm from Pluto. I moved to Seattle when I was 2.

You don't have to be Albert Einstein to see that we, as a race of people, we Australians, are being buried by a mass migration program to line the pockets of the rich and powerful.

I was born in Boston, but I moved to Cleveland when I was three.

This happens with every player, if it wasn't for money I wouldn't leave Brazil. When you go to Europe you go because of the money and because of the good clubs also, and in Shanghai the project is to be one of the best leagues.

I grew up in the north of England, in New Castle, which is where Hadrian's Wall starts on the east coast of England and then goes across to the west.

Industry has left Punjab. Economy has collapsed.

My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.

If G20 leaders are serious about sustainable growth and job creation and want to stem migration flows and promote long-term stability, education is an essential investment.

We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels.

What people want - and they will get - is control of our own system, with a lower and sustainable level of net migration. And, above all, that has to mean one thing: an end to freedom of movement.

The U.K. government has been clear that it wants to use the opportunity of leaving the E.U. to design a future immigration system that works in the best interests of the country. A key part of this system must be creating an environment that allows us to achieve sustainable levels of net migration.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

As a kid growing up in Sweden loving American music, I always dreamt of migrating here and working with brilliant artists like Donald Glover.

We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

Migrants who set off for Europe don't want to go to Bulgaria or Hungary. They want to go to Germany, Austria, or Sweden.

While much attention was focused on Germany during the 2015 refugee crisis, in which more than a million migrants from the Middle East and Africa entered the continent at the behest of Angela Merkel, the country that admitted the most migrants per capita was Sweden.

Mass migration and the refugee crisis is one of the biggest problems facing the world. In this country we assume that everyone just wants to come to the U.K. - but it's an issue in Germany, Greece, Sweden, all across the E.U. Why should we be the first to turn our backs on the problem?

Sweden endured a potato famine like in Ireland and loads of people emigrated to the US.

My dad played in Iceland and I think went over to Sweden for a couple of years.

There's Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Kenya, and then they switched to Qatar and Bahrain and other countries. Yes, I do have a problem with that.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.