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Foreigner Quotes & Sayings

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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet. — Pearl S. Buck

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

For now that it was gone, it all seemed Far stranger: more fantastical than Pharaoh. And he was changed: a foreigner among them. — Seamus Heaney

So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both. — Ijeoma Umebinyuo

He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins. — Julia Kristeva

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner ... — Eleanor Roosevelt

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films. — Arin Paul

You may be a foreigner, but you have the heart of a Frenchman. — Joanne Harris

How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer's work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around — Amy Tan

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner. — Zaha Hadid

Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home — Pam Jenoff

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life. — Meg Rosoff

It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country. — Sergio Martinez

You have to be outside the establishment - a foreigner new to the game — Malcolm Gladwell

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. — Italo Calvino

Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you. — Yoko Ono

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you're a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. — David Sedaris

Everyone is naked under his clothes and everyone is a foreigner outside his native lands. — Gisli Palsson

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest. — Tahir Shah

1. Have a torrid affair with a foreigner. Country: TBD. — K.A. Tucker

The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents. — Chelsea Handler

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within? — Julia Kristeva

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner. — William Cameron Townsend

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived. — Brad Pitt

That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here. — Ernest Hemingway,

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta. — Raymond Bonner

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use. — Michel Hazanavicius

Nobody had seen a Djinni in decades. Now all it took to burn down a den of sin was a girl, a foreigner and a whole mess of drunks. — Alwyn Hamilton

Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen]. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution. — Hamid Karzai

Being a foreigner is not a disease. — Alden Nowlan

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home. — Tom Conti

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner. — Margaret Cho

In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life. — Tahir Shah

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner. — Peter Doig

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad. — Sonia Gandhi

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand. — Richard Holbrooke

I'll always be a foreigner. — Olivier Martinez

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

It was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.'
'hello. Dave was BRITISH. — Meg Cabot

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now. — Lou Gramm

Stranger: Do you believe in Jesus, my friend?
Foreigner: O yes, I do but who the hell are you? — Toba Beta

If you left off traditions because you didn't know why they started you'd be no better than a foreigner. — Terry Pratchett

Refuse to feel foreign on your own planet. — Ben Tolosa

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! — George Orwell

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. — Claudio Magris

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony. — Howard Stringer

The foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves. — Julia Kristeva

A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know set is to know English. — Bill Bryson

Foreigner is a word created by guilt and the fears, ignorance, and weaknesses of your own ego. — Ben Tolosa

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner

Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow. — Anonymous

I want to know what love is. I want you to show me," said Tyson, grateful that this planet was allowing a foreigner to share this experience with it. — Leonard Delaney

[Just as any foreigner is not fully human.] — Michel De Montaigne

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life. — John Mahoney

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners. — David Sedaris

It was a poor thing she felt for anyone to be born a foreigner. — Oscar Wilde

Refuse to feel like a foreigner on your own planet. The country you live in is simply another physical location of your own home. — Ben Tolosa

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. — David Lyons

I love the Twins, ... I bleed the Twins. That's all I know. If I go anywhere else, I'd be a foreigner. — Torii Hunter

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work. — Emmanuel Jal

Where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, — Italo Calvino

You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake. — Michael Bassey Johnson

...the intranslatable intonations of a foreigner, the inevitable cross-cultural misunderstandings lurking in tones and glances and assumptions. — Arthur Phillips

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

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica. — Mahatma Gandhi

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. — Ludwig Von Mises

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much. — Tony Benn

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing. — Lou Gramm

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner. — John Steinbeck

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer

It is hard for me to imagine what it means to be a complete foreigner, a person to whom no one shows any sign of recognition. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music. — Lou Gramm