197 Quotes About Foreign
- Author جلجامش نبيل
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لقد كنت الناجي الوحيد من شعب منقرض وهو يطأ أرضاً جديدة، كنت كقادم من زمن آخر، مسافر كوني، أو حتى كائن من كوكب آخر هبط على الأرض، وفضلاً عن ذلك كنت مجرداً من كلّ القوى. شعرتُ بالتيه لكأنّي أحد الإسرائيليين في سيناء، ولكنها كانت غابة خضراء هذه المرة.
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- Author Cassandra Clare
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Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.
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- Author Anthony Marra
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She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
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- Author Robin Sloan
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There was more to upgrade. I went to a shop in downtown Oakland that sold salt of every kind and color, black and pink and blue. Each variety sat shimmering in a glass canister, priced by the ounce, with a handwritten card recounting its biography: here, salt from the beaches of Gujarat; there, salt from the pans of Brittany; behold, salt from the suburbs of Portland.I backed slowly out the door. I would stick with Diamond Crystal.
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- Author Dan Chaon
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Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that she loathed the American custom of constantly smiling: "They are like chimpanzees," she said, in her bitter exclamatory voice. She grimaced, baring her teeth grotesquely. "Eee!" she said. "I smile at you! Eee! It is repulsive.
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- Author Steven Magee
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The truth is raining down on the toxic Trump administration.
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- Author Charmaine J. Forde
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I have studied many languages-French, Spanish and a little Italian, but no one told me that Statistics was a foreign language.
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- Author Sunday Adelaja
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If we don’t establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country.
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- Author Tara Westover
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I tried to imagine what it would have been like to study at such a place, to walk across marble floors each morning and, day after day, come to associate learning with beauty. But my imagination failed me. I could only imagine the school as I was experiencing it now, as a kind of museum, a relic from someone else’s life
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