Foreigner Quotes

96 quotes by 86 authors

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the… — Steven Biko
In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner. — Margaret Cho
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it… — Yao Ming
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his… — Frederic Bastiat
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner. — William Cameron Townsend
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent… — George Bernard Shaw
When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country… — Emma Goldman
It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any… — Mark Twain
We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it.… — Noam Chomsky
Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on at 6am and… — Natalie Dormer
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm… — David Hockney
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… — Herbert Marcuse
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks… — Seneca the Younger
Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values. — Saddam Hussein
Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It… — Eugene Davidson
Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home — Pam Jenoff
I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray… — Charles Horton Cooley

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