5 Quotes Tagged: foreigners

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character.