Passport Quotes

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. (Al Gore)
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?" View quote
Grace Hopper
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. View quote
Herman Melville
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. View quote
Matthew Simpson
My face is my passport. View quote
Vladimir Horowitz
There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went. View quote
Ani DiFranco
For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me! View quote
David Lee Roth
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war. View quote
George Orwell
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. View quote
Julie Burchill
To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe. (Bruce Chatwin)
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day. View quote
John Steinbeck
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. View quote
Malcolm X
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. View quote
Malcolm X
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Drag is really about mocking identity. Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are – you are more than what it says on your passport. View quote
RuPaul
If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one. View quote
Klaus Barbie
Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian. (Amit Bhatia)
Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go. View quote
Benh Zeitlin
I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson. View quote
Eve Hewson
I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family. View quote
Jason O'Mara
In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport. View quote
Lisa Snowdon