#foreigner

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character. ↗

— Truman Capote

#travel #equality

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#betray #children #credit #foreigner #him

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#i #involved #play #songs #still

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. ↗

— Yao Ming

#america #basketball #culture #difficult #foreign

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves. ↗

— Michael Shaara

#foreigners #patriotism #slavery #equality

I am a foreigner, but I like to hide the fact. I'd rather people be prejudiced against my personality. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #personality #prejudice #racism

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

— Joseph Hume

#food #foreigners #give #our #our people

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#asking #change #constitution #country #foreigner

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

#foreigners #france #invest #more #want

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners