Quotes of Migration - somelinesforyou

“ Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors. ”

- Vicente Fox

“ We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ 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. ”

- Gandhi

“ Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. ”

- J. G. Ballard

“ I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. ”

- Alfred Russel Wallace

“ I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?". ”

- Grace Hopper

“ At that time, the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) will formally transfer parole and care to the father. ”

- Janet Reno

“ Population and immigration are very difficult issues to discuss. Democrats and Republicans alike - for very different reasons - avoid it. ”

- Gaylord Nelson

“ We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical. ”

- Peter Brimelow

“ I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached. ”

- Peter Brimelow

“ This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems. ”

- Duncan Hunter

“ I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. ”

- Louise Brown

“ You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs — and bodies? ”

- Mark Twain

“ We are frustrated with the broken immigration system. It doesn't match the economic reality. ”

- John Gay

“ Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. ”

- John Berger

“ The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ Now we ask our federal governments to help us too, to help us with their principal responsibilities, immigration, drug smuggling. ”

- Bill Richardson
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