Quotes About Emigration

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.

I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.

but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

From the early 1930s, professional purges led so many Jewish and "communist" academics and scientists to emigrate that this led to a major brain drain. By 1933, about 2,000 of the nation's premier artists and writers had fled as well.11 The Nazi periodical The Nettle depicted this emigration as "a triumph for the German nation."12

In time, my mother decided she wanted to return to Spain.

The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.

One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another

by 1891, nearly two-fifths of all living people born in Ireland were living outside Ireland.

Silently, with no lights on, cars kept coming, one after the other, full to bursting with baggage and furniture, prams and birdcages, packing cases and baskets of clothes, each with a mattress tied firmly to the roof.

So they headed out of Paris on foot, past the city gates, dragging their bags behind them in the dust, then on into the suburbs, into the countryside, all the while thinking, 'This can't be happening! I must be dreaming!' Like all the others, the Michauds started walking.

I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before.

Today the nanas have become so emancipated that the lords of their domains prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Peru, whom they can mistreat as badly as they used to their Chilean servant girls.

Ese día de verano, 4 de agosto de 1939, en Burdeos, quedaría para siempre en la memoria de Víctor Dalmau, Roser Bruguera y otros dos mil y tantos españoles que partían a ese país larguirucho de América del Sur, aferrado a las montañas para no caerse al mar, del que nada sabían.

I left Zimbabwe when I was 16.

We do not only have a Turkish side, inherited from our parents and our families, we were born and raised in Gelsenkirchen. It is a city with a high percentage of emigrants.

Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.

When you have your own people fleeing their homes it's not because they found a job somewhere else... then you have something to fix in your country.

The need for physical border security is a very real one. But equally important is the need to focus on the source of the problem: mass emigration from Central America.

Leaving South Africa was very difficult.