Quotes About Emigration

It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

the war should be understood as a kind of backlash against globalization, heralded by rising tariffs and immigration restrictions in the decade before 1914, and welcomed most ardently by Europe's agrarian elites, whose position had been undermined for decades by the decline in agricultural prices and emigration of surplus rural labour to the New World.14

Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close to exporting so many of its inhabitants.

If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.

I began to feel whatever narrow space I had in Saudi Arabia was getting narrower. I thought it would be better to get out and be safe.

Quisiera ser extranjero para irme a mi país".

was trying to explain to someone else that the situation of the Irish a hundred years ago and the situation of the Negro today cannot very usefully be compared. Negroes were brought here in chains long before the Irish ever thought of leaving Ireland; what manner of consolation is it to be told that emigrants arriving here—voluntarily—long after you did have risen far above you? In

Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Emigration is a kind of partial suicide. You don't die, but a great deal dies within you. Not least, the language.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

People sort of misinterpret the immigration story. I often hear people say that, well, you know, they emigrate to another country for a better life. That is not what the story of the immigrant is. They go to another country to provide opportunities for the next generation.

Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.

I certainly don't miss Italy, as I am happy in Canada and have no intention of returning.

By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half of my compatriots seemed to do.

I will never go back. For the simple reason that all the Russia I need, after all, is with me--always with me. Her literature, her language, my own Russian childhood. I will never return, I will never surrender.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Your uncle, dear Miss Haredale, happily—I say happily, because he has succeeded where many of our creed have failed, and is safe—has crossed the sea, and is out of Britain.' 'I thank God for it,' said Emma, faintly.

She had lived in Iceland from birth, a total of 36 years, without knowing that she had the right to live, work and vote in the USA.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.