Foreigner Quotes

“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.”

“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.”

“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.”

“I’m not a foreigner because I haven’t been praying to return safely home, I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner because we are all travelling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner because, when I asked, I received. When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.”

“I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it's a shame that in recent years its become unfashionable to poke fun at them. I certainly don't think they themselves ever minded it.”

“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.”

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

“As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.”

“...if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.”