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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
- Canada
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
- Facility
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
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- Nov 07, 2020