Quotes About Migration

If we open the borders tomorrow there would be 50 million people who came here, all good people, mostly good people. But they'd all want jobs. They'd drive wages down. Not because they intend to, that's not what they're coming for, but that would be the result.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with. And I'm lucky enough to be in a position where I can wait six months for a project that really interests me.

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

There's a huge migration of eyeballs from television screens to cellphones, tablets, and laptops. More and more people prefer to watch their favorite shows at a time and a place of their own choosing. Appointment TV only happens when you are waiting for the doctor.

I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.

We need to wake up to the reality of what migration is about. They come here to work. The idea that they take British jobs is not true; they add huge value to our economy.

If you don't allow your aggression or negative feelings to be expressed in your waking life, then it migrates into your subconscious.

I was born in London but brought up in Wales from the age of two.

My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains to avoid the dust. However, he always arrived at his destination and did his share of the work.

I had a very humane, what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova would probably have called 'vegetarian,' experience of migration. It involved planes and trains - the actual compartments of passenger trains - and not grueling walking and riding on the roofs of trains.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

When we arrived in the U.K. on the banana boat, we settled right by Old Trafford.

I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.

What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.

I am actually an open borders kind of guy.

The brain drain from Africa has been reversed.

What is America? Best brains in the world migrate to the U.S. If there are best brains, they will produce best results.

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.