Foreigners Quotes

• I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • British
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Foreigners

• What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?

  

  Blue Balliett
  • Born
  • Foreigners

• By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.

  

  Erich Ludendorff
  • People
  • Respect
  • Revolution

• We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.

  

  Enrique Lihn
  • Countries
  • Imitations
  • Respective

• I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Home
  • Past
  • Feels

• Emmy and I are still Habte Sadek's favorite foreigners, and it is all because I wanted to look at his feet when I was eleven years old! But it never hurts to be polite to people.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Hurts
  • Polite
  • Foreigners

• If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Language
  • Silence
  • 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
  • Film
  • Foreigners

• Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.

  

  Michael Rosbash
  • Country
  • Research
  • Immigrants

• Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

  

  Steven Biko
  • Decide
  • Majority
  • Apartheid

• If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.

  

  Daniel T. Griswold
  • Balance
  • Investment
  • Determined

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