Migration Quotes

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

— Carl Sandburg

As responsible politicians, you have to manage migration.

— Peter Maurer

Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.

— Jo Cox

“Migration is the story of my body”

— Victor Hernández Cruz

“All of us are migrants to this world for a few days!”

— Kandathil Sebastian

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

— Paul Collier

Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.

— Sebastian Kurz

Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.

— Sebastian Kurz

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

— Bill Gates

Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Once we are made aware of the universality of our angsts and joys, we become one under the sky of humanity”

— Mala Naidoo

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

— David Blunkett

Europe can only hold together and stand together, which is very important in times of migration challenges, terrorism challenges, if each country…

— Angela Merkel

If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting…

— Viktor Orban

The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and…

— Isabel Wilkerson

I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be…

— Kwame Dawes

Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be…

— Margaret Hodge

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Nations that pay for outcomes and health actually spend a lower percentage of GDP, and they have better outcomes. And so the…

— Tim Kaine

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the…

— Iain Sinclair

Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around…

— Roma Tearne

Some will say it isn't the government's job to manage who people meet and interact with, but there is clearly a lot…

— Chuka Umunna

Let's not even talking about chain migration, immigration, which is another trick, but all of these things are designed to penetrate the…

— Rush Limbaugh

There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the…

— Christopher Isherwood

“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves,…

— Salman Rushdie

“Stuff and nonsense: you must regard this deviation from your plan as part of the adventure that you sought when you decided…

— Adam Yamey

A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans…

— Francisco J. Ayala

“I look through the window at the huge valley lit up with different colors. The town is cradled by the dark mountains.…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

“I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other…

— Aanchal Malhotra

“Gradually the idea for a book began to take shape. It was to be a wildly ambitious and intolerant work, a kind…

— Bruce Chatwin

“Perhaps I should go back a few years earlier. My parents, who travelled from Odessa, the Russian city on the Black Sea,…

— Emanuel Litvinoff

“If someone skilled at studying moons, planets, stars and other celestial bodies such as galaxies, comets, asteroids and gamma-ray bursts were to…

— Karl Wiggins

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

— Malcolm X

The tragic conditions at detention facilities are the result of an intense surge in migration across the border.

— Will Hurd

“It made no sense, a lifespan of a few weeks did not add up to an annual migration of many thousand miles.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

If the U.S. government is serious about fighting irregular migration, it should support and encourage legal migration.

— Nayib Bukele