Foreigners Quotes
217 Foreigners quotes by 182 unique authors
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The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this…
— John Dos Passos
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All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are…
— George Orwell
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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
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It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy…
— Zack de la Rocha
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Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have…
— Mark Twain
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I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
— John Mahoney
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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country.
— Sergio Martinez
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For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.
— David Lyons
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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…
— John Hanning Speke
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What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody…
— Isaac Asimov
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We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
— Mark Steyn
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They call themselves the Ku Klux Klan and they hate pretty much everyone who isn't like them. If you have the wrong color, religion, or…
— Clare Vanderpool
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Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the…
— Mark Steyn
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Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need…
— Elie Wiesel
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Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.
— Noel Coward
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
— William Ralph Inge
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The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
— Saadi
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