Country Quote by Rabih Alameddine

“The most difficult adjustment an expatriate has to make, on returning to his native land, is in this realm of conversation. The impression one…

— Henry Miller

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

— Laila Lalami

“To be an immigrant, good or bad, is about straddling two homes, whilst knowing you don't really belong to either.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“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

“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

“Being an immigrant is not for sissies.”

— Helen Russell

“You don't realise how much of a native you are until you become a foreigner.”

— Vikram Kapur

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

— Ambrose Bierce

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States…

— Ivan Krastev

“So they say things like, “Go back to your country,” as if their Irish ancestors never walked through Ellis Island.”

— Dominique Christina Ashaheed

“All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.”

— Ryū Murakami

Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.

— William Klein