Emigrate Quotes

To emigrate is to leave behind everything once taken for granted, and these quotes trace that experience from childhood memory to historical record. One writer describes emigrating as a kind of lost innocence, while another wryly notes that even bad ideas sometimes emigrate when they have nowhere else left to go.

Several quotes connect emigration directly to America, whether as a destination for hope or, more cynically, for ideas nobody else wanted.


Others reflect on the Advice given before leaving and the sense of Abandon that can follow such a permanent decision.