Foreigner Quotes

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.
Steven Biko

Human, Black, Him

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

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

Friendly, Suspicious, Deals

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.
Hugh Jackman

Attitude, Job, Country

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

Used, Anyone, Whether

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

London, Foreigners

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

Change, Country, Place

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.
Charles Horton Cooley

Children, Nothing, Him

I'll always be a foreigner.
Olivier Martinez

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

American, Talking, Maybe

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
Michel Hazanavicius

Director, Frenchman

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.
Mira Nair

Home, Fact, Weird

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

Music, Nothing, Style

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

Find, Older, Singing

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

Writing, Play, Songs

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.
Michel Hazanavicius

Important, Whatever, Whether

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

Life, Living, Sound

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.
Edward Sapir

Him, Far, Illusion

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

Politics, Understand, Easily

When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.
Lou Gramm

Writing, Spring, Year

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
Yao Ming

Learning, Basketball, America

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

Away, Matter, Fact

Being a foreigner is not a disease.
Alden Nowlan

'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

Training, Word, Social

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.
Roman Polanski

Car, Wrong, Speak

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

Home, Felt, Lived

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

Find, Big, Place

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

Idea, Running, Press

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