Quotes about Migration

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

In the spring of the year birds began to arrive on the beach from across the gulf. Weary passerines. Vireos. Kingbirds and grosbeaks. Too exhausted to move. You could pick them up out of the sand and hold them trembling in your palm. Their small hearts beating and their eyes shuttering. He walked the beach with his flashlight the whole of the night to fend away predators and toward the dawn he slept with them in the sand. That none disturb these passengers.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. Probably the best way is to be from Mars.

In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador

And yet in Port William, as everywhere else, it was already the second decade of the twentieth century. And in some of the people of the town and the community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were someplace else.

When we walk, we can walk for our ancestors and future generations. Maybe they had to walk with sorrow; perhaps they were forced to march or migrate. When we walk freely, we are walking for them.

In general, placental animals would move slower than marsupials, which can collect their young (e.g., in pouches) and continue migrating. Many placental animals need to stop and settle for a time to raise their young but, theoretically, great varieties of land animals could have gone to any region of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

When all of Europe put into practice the ideas which he had preached, he came to live in America.

... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.