Quotes and Sayings about Foreigners

 

 

"I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests."
- Ralph Allen
(Related: Discipline, Awards, Day, Emotion, End, Foreigners, Tests)

"The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up."
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
(Related: Travel, Country, Fact, Foreigners, Will)

"There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people."
- Lakhdar Brahimi
(Related: People, Empathy, Foreigners)

"I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Love, America, Americans, Film, Foreigners)

"To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners."
- Roberto Clemente
(Related: People, Foreigners)

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Foreigners)

"Children are all foreigners."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Children, Foreigners)

"Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Foreigners, Interest, Trade, Will)

"Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through."
- Paul Gascoigne
(Related: Foreigners, Mind)

"Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs."
- Alan Greenspan
(Related: Foreigners, Jobs, Will)

"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."
- Zahi Hawass
(Related: Care, Foreigners, Majority)

"Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us."
- Joseph Hume
(Related: Food, Work, People, Foreigners)

"Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all."
- Bianca Jagger
(Related: Americans, Civil liberties, Foreigners)

"The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil."
- Henry James Sumner Maine
(Related: History, Foreigners, Names)

"I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'"
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Cause, Confusion, Foreigners)

"The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count."
- George Mikes
(Related: People, English, Foreigners, World)

"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Politics, God, Foreigners, Rights, Infinite, Mercy, Wrongs)

"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
(Related: Time, Friendship, Accidents, Foreigners, World)

"I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."
- John H. Speke
(Related: Travel, Trust, Climate, Foreigners, Trying)

"Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys."
- Max von Sydow
(Related: People, American, First, Foreigners)

"But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Country, Foreigners)

"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not."
- Paul Wolfowitz
(Related: Foreigners, Help, Iraq, Want)