Migration Quotes

77 quotes by 67 authors

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on… — Franz Boas
I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should… — Tony Abbott
I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if… — Mary Leakey
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers. — Ellsworth Huntington
What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for… — Ernesto Zedillo
Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have… — Ernesto Zedillo
Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed. — Paul Collier
We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a… — William L. Swing
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see… — Ernest Hemingway
Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh of Christ. It… — Pope Francis
Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our… — Ban Ki-moon
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. — P.J. O'Rourke
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
California is a tragic country â€” like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations â€” the land rush, the… — Christopher Isherwood
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,… — Henry David Thoreau
Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is… — Ned Sublette
If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing… — Aviva Chomsky
I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed… — Vance Havner
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was… — Isabel Wilkerson

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