Foreigner Quotes

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. (Gertrude Stein)
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. View quote
Steve Biko
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. View quote
Roman Polański
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious. View quote
M. Scott Peck
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. View quote
Charles Cooley
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. View quote
Italo Calvino
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them. View quote
David Hockney
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. View quote
Edward Sapir
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner. View quote
John Steinbeck
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts. (Christopher Columbus)
... it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH. View quote
Meg Cabot
Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you. View quote
Hugh Jackman
What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"? View quote
Blue Balliett
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 shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. View quote
Jean Webster
The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert ... a man with a machine and inadequate culture ... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold. View quote
Wendell Berry
What are you looking at, foreigner?” the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldn't smile at his captors like that. "I'm just making sure I can remember you,” Gilan told him. "Never know when that might be useful. View quote
John Flanagan
I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by any foreigner. View quote
Manuel L. Quezon
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. View quote
Claudio Magris
Being a foreigner is not a disease. View quote
Alden Nowlan
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from. (Aasif Mandvi)
For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated. View quote
David Lyons
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony. View quote
Howard Stringer
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life. View quote
John Mahoney
I'll always be a foreigner. View quote
Olivier Martinez