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“And he said... ...a foreigner will always be left at the front door of your home.”

Philosophy Sadness Quote Of The Day Anthony T Hincks Prophet Hincks And He Said Alien Foreigner Familye

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“English: "By speaking, we enslave ourselves through the memory of others, and by silence, we make ourselves strangers." Česky: „Mluvením zotročujeme sami sebe prostřednictvím paměti druhých a mlčením ze sebe děláme cizince.”

Silence Memory Paradox Speaking Strangers Image Quietness Foreigner Enslave Not Speaking

Author:Sebastián Wortys

“I am a human, if i was a foreigner i’d know.”

Human Stranger Outsider Foreigner Earthlings

Book:running is flying intermittently

Source: running is flying intermittently

“As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.”

Truth Motivation Fear Process Learning Development Criticism Encouragement Medicine Spite Flattery Ridicule Misunderstood Intimidating Haters Disagreeable Digestion Foreigner Chewed Up

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.”

Reason Humor Travel Caution Foreigners Traveling Unfriendly Foreign Visitor Foreigner Humours

Book:Oath of Swords

Source: Oath of Swords

“Whenever I'm in the company of strangers and speak in a way that reveals my Slav accent, the question follows: "Where are you from?" I always reply politely. It's very important to me that I say exactly where I'm from, and explain where that place is in case the person I'm talking to has never hears of my country ("in Europe, near Italy"). I suppose that's the need in me to feel accepted for what I am.”

Foreign Language Otherness The Other Accent Foreigner Slavic Peoples

Book:My Heart

Source: My Heart

“Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands of social position.”

Hometown Living Abroad Foreigner

Book:Three Japanese Short Stories

Source: Three Japanese Short Stories

“Do not oppress the foreigners living in your land. Always, remember that you will be a foreigner when you travel to another land.”

Nations Land Travel Wise Sayings Foreigners Oppress Foreigner

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“to bring a furrin child into the coonthry; an' depend on't, whether you an' me lives to see't or noo, it'll coom to soom harm. The first sitiation iver I held—it was a hold hancient habbey, wi' the biggest orchard o' apples an' pears you ever see—there was a French valet, an' he stool silk stoockins, an' shirts, an' rings, an' iverythin' he could ley his hands on, an' run awey at last wi' th' missis's jewl-box. They're all alaike, them furriners. It roons i' th' blood.”

Brexit Foreigner

Book:Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Scenes of Clerical Life

“Still he considered playing Pachinko the best investment of his free time, soaking in the local stench and bad breathe of other lonely Japanese people as an alternative way of blending into the colorful local scenes which he yearned to be a part of.”

Source: The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

“We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].”

Country Countrymen Divided And Conquered Foreigner

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The face of self-pity was universally understood.”

Language Travel Depression Pity Japan Asia Asian Traveller Face Language Learning Language Barrier Living Abroad Foreigner Traveling Around The World Pachinko White Man And The Pachinko Girl Living In A Foreign Country

Author:Vann Chow

“NOS VOYONS DIS AUTRES CHAUSES COMME VOS + NOS RYONS ET PLEURONS DIS AUTRES TEMPES COMME VOS + ET NOS AIMONS DIS AUTRES ODORES COMME VOS + PEREGRINATOR TEMPORUM Graffitti im Kölner Stadtarchiv”

Autism Refugee Middle Age Foreigner Timetravel

Book:Die Weissagerin

Source: Die Weissagerin

“It’s still hard to live in a foreign country with unfamiliar people, even when you’re with the person you love. I don’t have any roots or history of my own here. A person needs their history around them to remember who they were and to remind them of where they’re going. I’m worried about leaving my history and memories behind me.”

History Foreigner Living In A Foreign Country

Book:Living in Water

Source: Living in Water

“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a people live a life that was strange in many ways, but also much the same as anywhere else." "Then why are they so cruel?" There was an earnestness to the girl's face, an honest desire to know. "Cruelty is in all of us," he said. "But they made it a virtue.”

Source: Queen of Fire