Immigration Quote by Mavis Gallant Download Open image ““All immigration is based on misapprehension.”” — Mavis Gallant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Immigration
“Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Immigration teaches you to bend. Courage is remembering who you are.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of assimilation is.” — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
“Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would… — Jade Chang Copy Share Image
“you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“Verlange. The process feels like crossing a border on a one-way ticket, from a state of innocence, to one of irreconcilable knowledge. You are… — Karina Szczurek Copy Share Image
“Borders...exist by our own choosing. Whether you accept their jurisdiction is entirely up to you” — Oliver Broudy Copy Share Image
“To be an immigrant, good or bad, is about straddling two homes, whilst knowing you don't really belong to either.” — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.” — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
“Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place, where the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
“Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.” — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“Converts have it soft," said Mary. "They come to it late, without ever having had the Devil under the bed. They sail in and… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“If your life isn't exactly the way you want it to be by the time you are forty-five," said Walter's father, whom he admired,… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue".” — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.” — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the… — Viktor Orban Copy Share Image
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“If all the developed countries would let in just 3% more immigrants, the world’s poor would have $305 billion more to spend, say scientists… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Let's be honest, if the Democrats didn't support ignoring our nation's immigration laws, there is no way they could win the presidency or a… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
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