29 Quotes About Foreigner
- Author Herbert Marcuse
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The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.
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- Author Kafū Nagai
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Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands of social position.
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- Author Alex Z. Moores
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It’s still hard to live in a foreign country with unfamiliar people, even when you’re with the person you love. I don’t have any roots or history of my own here. A person needs their history around them to remember who they were and to remind them of where they’re going. I’m worried about leaving my history and memories behind me.
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- Author Emiko Jean
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Born a foreignerI carry two halves with meLoose skin I pull onTo go places and don't fitLike apple pie and mochi
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- Author Ben Tolosa
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Refuse to feel foreign on your own planet.
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- Author Edith Wharton
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Yes, you have been away a very long time. ""Oh, centuries and centuries; so long," she said, "that I’m sure I’m dead and buried, and this dear old place is heaven;
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- Author Elif Shafak
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Elle était étrangère et, comme tous les étrangers, transportait avec elle l'ombre d'un ailleurs.
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- Author George Eliot
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to bring a furrin child into the coonthry; an' depend on't, whether you an' me lives to see't or noo, it'll coom to soom harm. The first sitiation iver I held—it was a hold hancient habbey, wi' the biggest orchard o' apples an' pears you ever see—there was a French valet, an' he stool silk stoockins, an' shirts, an' rings, an' iverythin' he could ley his hands on, an' run awey at last wi' th' missis's jewl-box. They're all alaike, them furriners. It roons i' th' blood.
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- Author Ehsan Sehgal
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A foreigner, an American, Trump will decide the foreigners, future, and fate. It is the black, cruel and inhumane move
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