Quotes Tagged With :emigration

Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the....

There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American....

In Ireland we have the phenomenon known as a "Spoiled Priest." Unlike a spoiled child, this does not....

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices....

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody....

Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going....

It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with....

I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you....

It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the....

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it.....