Top 295 Foreigners Quotes & Sayings

The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.

We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners. Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore as entitled to sell the country's natural resources and to borrow money in its people's name. These privileges conferred by foreigners keep autocrats in power despite the fact that they were not elected and do not rule in the interest of the population.

When foreigners struggle for their freedoms, they've long expected the U.S. government to be the first to stand with them.

When I started with New Japan in 2011, there was a total of five or six foreigners on the roster.

One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.

When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.

It's such a terrifying thing when mobs of people get together and persecute foreigners.

I'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.

If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?' So that’s the time I joined the Ku Klux Klan in Miami. The reason I joined is to see if I could change them. So I dissolved that organization in a month-and-a-half, alone. [Applause] Then I joined the White Citizen Council. The WCC hates foreigners – all foreigners. So I joined that organization; I dissolved it in one month.

There is not another country that is as sensitive as Israel is to the rights of foreigners.

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to.

I believe only foreigners should run for president...Face it, the presidency is a lousy job. And who does lousy jobs we don't want anymore better than foreigners?

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.

The people of America, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.

I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen!" he squeaked and ran.

Children are all foreigners.

While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal] Shanghai to throw the foreigners out, but Shanghai was doing too well financially [to expel foreigners]. So Mao went to the interior and raised a peasant army. He came back to Shanghai and sealed off the country.

London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].

We can go into the Chinese market, develop the engine, new models of cars. Proton can compete. What is the point of giving the company to foreigners? It will revert to the same situation where foreigners just assemble their cars here. We learn nothing.

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

The indigenous population is not responsible [for rising HIV infection rates]. It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.

The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

Xenophobia is the hatred of foreigners. I don't hate anyone.

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

Koreans are worried about the Japanese right-wing people, who tend to be against foreigners. But the Koreans in Japan aren't even foreigners. They are essentially culturally Japanese. If a family has lived in Japan for three generations, it's absurd to see them as foreigners.

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now there are new foreigners - Syrians and other people from the Middle East, people of Muslim backgrounds. And the sense among many Americans is, well, these people are completely different from us, and they're not like the Vietnamese who are much more assimilable. And I think that's very, very doubtful. I think that the majority of these new foreigners, if given the opportunity, will be able to assimilate and deal with American culture.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.