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Quotes About Migration

The sparrow flies south for winter.
~ Derek Landy
There are too many people for this town. - China, about Roarhaven
~ Derek Landy
The Sparrow flies South for Winter" - Skulduggery Pleasant
~ Derek Landy
Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
~ William J. Clinton
We need to fix our legal immigration system.
~ Carly Fiorina
Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.
~ Jan C. Ting
Hummers evolved high in the Andes Mountains with progressive colonization of lower altitudes and expanded latitudes, especially to the north, and eventually to the far reaches of Canada and Alaska. They remain restricted to the Americas, with the vast majority of the 300+ species residents of South America.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
MIGRATION IS ANOTHER TRADE-OFF. Birds that migrate have smaller brains than their sedentary relatives. This makes sense, as a brain that consumes a lot of energy and develops slowly would be too costly for birds that travel a lot.
~ Jennifer Ackerman
Stomach issues aren't typical. But let me do some research." Trexler scribbles on a notepad. "What about breathing problems? That's usually what we see in cases of methane contamination." "She has asthma," Shelby says. Trexler's face lights. "There's a known connection between asthma and methane migration.
~ Jennifer Haigh
These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
~ Emily Dickinson
If she ever got the chance to settle down, it would be in the U.S. — on the west coast though. Somewhere with sun.
~ Eoin Colfer
Not with all his brain development can man tell how a bird or an animal can be crated, taken miles away in darkness, and when released, strike back towards its home. Man only knows that animals can do what he can neither do himself nor explain.
~ Eric Knight
Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
~ Amin Maalouf
Soy hijo del camino, caravana es mi patria y mi vida la más inesperada travesía
~ Amin Maalouf
Le rêve secret de la plupart des migrants, c'est qu'on les prenne pour des enfants du pays.
~ Amin Maalouf
Beaucoup ont quitté leur terre natale, et beaucoup d'autres, sans l'avoir quitté ne la reconnaissent plus.
~ Amin Maalouf
If the Persians live in the past it is because the past is their homeland and the present is a foreign country where nothing belongs to them.
~ Amin Maalouf
Technological advances (like the Internet) used to start in government and then migrate to the commercial sector.52 Now that process is reversed, with breakthroughs coming from large companies like Google and Nvidia and from startups like Ginko Bioworks and Dataminr.
~ Amy B. Zegart
understood that migration was a kind of death, in which one's old self must be buried in order for a new self to be born, and that this move has made me who I am today.
~ Andrea Stuart
My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.
~ Will Hobbs
I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.
~ Graeme Base
Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life.
~ Jan C. Ting
I ask our European partners for a truly European migration management. The burden of landings cannot weigh only on the countries of arrival.
~ Giuseppe Conte