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Quotes About Migration

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.
~ Edward Burnett Tylor
What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.
~ Vicente Fox
I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.
~ Juan Felipe Herrera
Before my parents came to England from Calcutta in the 1970s, they used to go to games at Eden Gardens.
~ Isa Guha
I could not leave Georgia fast enough.
~ Tituss Burgess
I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.
~ Philomena Kwao
This battle for global talent is so important.
~ Jerry Moran
You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally.
~ Troy Carter
When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.
~ Colum McCann
As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
~ Karine Vanasse
Our teachers are good people and they work hard, but we are losing them to other states due to low pay.
~ Jim Justice
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
~ Gilbert White
The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out.
~ Peter Carey
In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen loping along the forested North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. She had walked hundreds of miles, probably from Wyoming or Idaho.
~ Lydia Millet
In December 2011, a wild gray wolf set foot in California, the first sighting in almost a century. He'd wandered in from Oregon, looking for a mate.
~ Lydia Millet
We apply the catechism by opening Italy's doors to women and children who come here legally on aeroplanes, but no more men on rubber dinghies. We will help them grow up and work in their own countries. Let's spend in Africa the money that needs to be spent.
~ Matteo Salvini
It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country.
~ Michael Gove
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.
~ Theodor Herzl
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
~ Douglas Coupland
Europe and the first world to which the United States belongs remain mostly white for now, and the third world, although mixed, contains a lot of nonwhite people.
~ Amy Wax
In 2003, Travelex acquired Thomas Cook Financial Services. We only had use of the Thomas Cook name for five years, so I had to increase public awareness of Travelex to migrate all Cook operations over to it. It was a success.
~ Lloyd Dorfman
Even though Puerto Rico will always be my hometown, I feel Miami is my second home.
~ Anuel AA