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Quotes About Emigration

los jóvenes emigran pero a veces les viene un dolor en el pecho que se llama nostalgia cuando reciben cartas de aquel barrio lejano tienen listo un secante para chupar las lágrimas algunos resolvieron quedarse pese a todo otros dijeron basta para siempre hay jóvenes que emigran / dicen chau los que se quedan tiemblan en silencio.
~ Mario Benedetti
En los primeros tiempos el exilio era, entre otras cosas, el duro hueso de vivir distante. Ahora es también el de morirse lejos.
~ Mario Benedetti
Denmark shows up regularly on magazine and online lists as "the happiest nation on earth," yet every year tens of thousands of business professionals leave the country. In a nation of only 5.6 million people, where one in four Danish women admits to suffering from high degrees of stress, its hard not to believe that some lists can be misleading. Denmark
~ Martin Lindstrom
Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Eurozone financial institutions have sought to impose Latvia's "model" austerity on Ireland, Spain and Portugal – and most of all, on Greece, which is being made an object lesson of how creditor powers will treat countries that try to extricate themselves from debt, unemployment, privatization, emigration and demographic collapse.
~ Michael Hudson
dès qu'on parle de quitter la France tous les Français trouvent ça formidable c'est un point caractéristique chez eux, même si c'est pour aller au Groenland ils trouvent ça formidable
~ Michel Houellebecq
all of them had lost the home in their minds for good.
~ Min Jin Lee
when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Los economistas han demostrado que es, por ejemplo, lo que ocurre en la emigración: las personas emigran no porque sufran una privación absoluta, sino una privación relativa; no porque sean pobres, sino porque son conscientes de que pueden vivir mejor. Cuanto más contacto tenemos unos con otros, más aspiraciones genera ese contacto.
~ Moisés Naím
There is where they could get their tickets off this world.
~ Mur Lafferty
YANKY GO HOME Pero llevame contigo YANKEE GO HOME But take me with you...
~ Nicanor Parra
If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.
~ Nicolas Sarkozy
You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.
~ Unknown
Whether or not migrants realize it, the impetus for their emigration is to escape from those aspects of their countries of origin that have condemned people to low productivity.
~ Paul Collier
An emigration is possibly the loneliest experience a man can suffer. In a way it is not a country he has lost but a home, or even just a part of a home, a room perhaps, or something in that room that he has had to leave behind, and which haunts him. I remember a window-seat I used to sit in as a youth, reading Pushkin and teaching myself to smoke scented cigarettes. That window is one I am always knocking at, asking to be let in.
~ Paul Scott
That was when Lang knew it was time to leave Germany.
~ Unknown
When these people, my mother and people like her, came out here it was like leaving a reality; leaving a planet; turning your back. I guess we don't appreciate it was such a big deal that they may never come back, never see their family again. – John Savi?
~ Unknown