Foreigners Quote by Tony Benn Download Open image “The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.” — Tony Benn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foreigners Inspirational Mother Parenting Upset
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It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists? — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
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Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
