Michael Shaara Quote

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you shoul...

But the silent stranger could hardly have understood what was passing: she was a German who had not long been in Russia and knew not a word of Russian, and she seemed to be as stupid as she was handso...

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it's a shame that in recent years its become unfashionable to pok...

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

The fact that the Hegnish have absolutely no interest in any people except themselves can also cause offense, or even rage. Foreigners exist. That is all the Hegnish know about them, and all they care...

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.