Foreigners Quotes · Page 4

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

— Saul Bellow

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

— John Mahoney

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so…

— Mordechai Vanunu

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

— Anne Tyler

I am a foreigner, but I like to hide the fact. I'd rather people be prejudiced against my personality.

— Bauvard

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

— Sonia Gandhi

“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.”

— Elif Shafak

Foreigners...the most difficult people to hold a conversation with. Just nod and agree boys, nod and agree.

— Anonymous

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

— Baltasar Gracian

“She wanted Azuka to learn the ways of these foreigners, since people ruled over others not because they were better people but…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there…

— Michael Shaara

Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's…

— Yoko Ono

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

— Brigitte Bardot

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love…

— Hans Zimmer

That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if…

— Jacob Zuma

But-but…” Timmie’s eyes couldn’t get any wider. “Why did you tell her I’m your boyfriend? Why doesn’t she know about your real…

— Jeaniene Frost

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants…

— Peter Høeg

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made,…

— Mark Twain

“If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his…

— David Weber

Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as…

— Robert Moses

In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me…

— Pietra Brettkelly

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's…

— JR

Already were seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the…

— David Malpass

I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?'…

— Jacque Fresco

“Typical white man behavior, Ms. Mori said. Have you ever noticed how a white man can learn a few words of some…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes…

— Robert Stacy McCain

The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were…

— Tom Standage

“Hail, oh woman, who was so afflicted, It was our ruin that you were in chains, Our fine land in the possession…

— Patrick Pearse

In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their…

— John Irving

I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear,…

— Benjamin Franklin

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

— Lou Gramm

I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen!" he squeaked and ran.

— Jeaniene Frost

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

— Howard Stringer

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned

— Quentin Crisp

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

— Claudio Magris

“Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.”

— Frederik L. Schodt

One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.

— Nicola Sturgeon