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Quotes About Migration

a bacterium named H. pylori that can cause ulcers. The bacterium may provide a clue to human migration patterns, for it is an Asian strain, and not the more usual Asian-African hybrids present in today's European population. This discovery suggests that the additional migrations that brought African strains to Europe had not yet taken place by Ötzi's time.
~ Eric H Cline
course, innovation writ large is related to anything and everything, so the phenomena and the literatures I will discuss here are only those hanging closest on the intellectual tree. My goal is to enable interested readers to migrate to further branches as they wish, assisted by the provision of a few important references. With respect to phenomena, I will first point out the relationship of user innovation to
~ Eric von Hippel
WindClan has traveled a long time. It's nearly a moon since ShadowClan drove us from our home. The weather is turning colder, and leaf-bare will be here soon. We have no choice but to stay.
~ Erin Hunter
Something similar (to bird migrations) draws human beings on pilgrimages as well… Pilgrimage is a spiritual as well as biological impulse, cutting across species. It's even a cosmic mystery. The Earth itself follows a 584-million-mile path around the sun each year. We're all defined by movement.
~ Belden C. Lane
Bird speech at the circle of willis results in migrant noises or 'puddles' that amass near the head of the pedestrian, rallying it toward a form of disruption within the flowing crowd.
~ Ben Marcus
Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Josiah, my father, married young, and carried his wife with three children into New England, about 1682. The conventicles having been forbidden by law, and frequently disturbed, induced some considerable men of his acquaintance to remove to that country, and he was prevailed with to accompany them thither, where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom.
~ Benjamin Franklin
CURIOUS: "Why do birds fly South for the winter?" SCIENCE: "Instinct." It means, "We don't know.
~ Benjamin Hoff
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.
~ Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
more tellingly, the AHC, local NCs, and various militia officers often instructed villages and urban neighborhoods near major Jewish concentrations of population to send away women, children, and the old to safer areas. This conformed with Arab League secretary-general Azzam's reported thinking already in May 194.6 ("to evacuate all Arab women and children from Palestine and send them to neighboring Arab countries," should it come to war)80
~ Benny Morris
end of March 1948 most of the wealthy and middle-class families had fled Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem, and most Arab rural communities had evacuated the heavily Jewish Coastal Plain; a few had also left the Upper Jordan Valley. Most were propelled by fear of being caught up, and harmed, in the fighting; some may have feared life under Jewish rule.
~ Benny Morris
Most fled when their villages and towns came under Jewish attack or out of fear of future attack. They wished to move out of harm's way.
~ Benny Morris
It is important that we enact immigration reform.
~ Susan Collins
I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
~ Rand Paul
Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.
~ Scott Peters
Comprehensive immigration reform should be debated and passed by Congress.
~ Amy Klobuchar
Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.
~ Nicholas Soames
Europe has been a place of refuge. Why should it stop with black and brown bodies?
~ Kehinde Wiley
In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
~ Yair Lapid
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
~ Ariel Dorfman
My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.
~ Sarah Gavron
The lack of livelihood opportunities in refugee camps pushes many people to embark on dangerous journeys in the quest for a better life.
~ Arancha Gonzalez