Quotes about Newcomer

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only,—noise, sayings, words; less than words— palabres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it.

All these labels and praises scare me. I am very simple, and I feel like a newcomer because I never stopped learning.