Immigration Quote by Padma Lakshmi

“The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.”

— Harold Bell Wright

“I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself,…

— Alison Singh Gee

“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

“who lived along the U.S. side of the border.”

— J.A. Jance

“In a world obsessed with borders, I found my home not in places, but in the spaces between them, where cultures converge and identities…

— Camellia Yang

“Long, long ago, I learned the heart cannot live in two places. I had to choose. My heart is in America. Where is yours?”

— Marivi Soliven

“Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those…

— Joy Hakim

“...very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had…

— Jane Goodall

“You do not realize the value of homeland until you are oppressed and forced to leave.”

— Amany Al-Hallaq

“I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east.”

— John Steinbeck

“In the East, things were better. More brotherhood, communication, curiosity. Primordial landscapes, more sacred places.”

— Paolo Rumiz

“While the West tends to medicate pain, the East helps us to embrace it.”

— Dave Gibbons