Quotes About Migration

Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.

I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

Conrad,Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness. My imagination however, requires that I stay in the same street, in the same house, gazing at the same view. Istanbul's fate is my fate. I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am.

People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.

Will people really go?" "People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world." "What the hell, maybe they can.

She read in a high African singsong that I guess came down along the line from Ghana long ago, something that she made American, but tied us to a home we'd never seen.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

In the spring of the year birds began to arrive on the beach from across the gulf. Weary passerines. Vireos. Kingbirds and grosbeaks. Too exhausted to move. You could pick them up out of the sand and hold them trembling in your palm. Their small hearts beating and their eyes shuttering. He walked the beach with his flashlight the whole of the night to fend away predators and toward the dawn he slept with them in the sand. That none disturb these passengers.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. Probably the best way is to be from Mars.

Itinerant degenerates bleeding westward like some heliotropic plague.

The cranes were moving south and he watched their thin echelons trail along those unseen corridors writ in their blood a hundred thousand years.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

Det är en sak att stiga i land på en ny kontinent under pompa och ståt, från ett stort och tungt beväpnat fartyg, med gåvor och bytesvaror och god mat. Att däremot anlända mer eller mindre naken, obeväpnad, försvarslös och utan minsta gåva, är en helt annan sak, nåt som alla stackars flyktingar genom historien kan intyga.

She ponders the transmigrations from southern latitudes. the millions moving north. What happens to their languages? The warm burial grounds they leave behind? What of their passions lying stiff and untranslated in their breasts?

the country had become too uncongenial. The gentry were departing to pleasanter places, where they could spend their money without having to see how it was made.

The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador