Abroad Quotes

“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“It is a traveler’s fallacy that one should shop for clothing while abroad. Those white linen tunics, so elegant in Greece, emerge from the suitcase as mere hippie rags; the beautiful striped shirts of Rome are confined to the closet; and the delicate hand batiks of Bali are first cruise wear, then curtains, then signs of impending madness.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.”
― Harold Edmund Stearns, The Confessions of a Harvard Man : The Street I Know Revisited: A Journey Through Literary Bohemia, Paris & New York in the 20's & 30's

“When the ancient Romans would conquer a new place or a new people, they would leave the language and the customs in tact – they would even let the conquered people rule themselves in most cases, appointing a governor to maintain a foothold in the region.” Wilson leaned against the whiteboard as he spoke, his posture relaxed, his hands clasped loosely.“This was part of what made Rome so successful. They didn't try to make everyone Romans in the process of conquering them. When I went to Africa with the Peace Corp, a woman who worked with the Corp said something to me that I have often thought about since. She told me 'Africa is not going to adapt to you. You are going to have to adapt to Africa.' That is true of wherever you go, whether it's school or whether it's in the broader world.”
― Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

“প্রবাশে দীর্ঘদিন থেকে লেখাপড়া শেষ করে জীবনকে উপভোগ করে কখনও যদি দেশের জন্যে বুক টনটন করে তখন কী করতে হবে?

তখন তারা আবার এই দেশটাতে ফিরে আসতে পারবে। মা যেমন করে তার সন্তানের জন্যে অপেক্ষা করে, দেশমাতৃকাও ঠিক সে রকম করে তার সন্তানের জন্যে গভীর ভালোবাসা নিয়ে অপেক্ষা করে থাকে, অপেক্ষা করে আছে।

আমি বাড়িয়ে বলছি না– আমি এটা জানি।”
― Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

“The land is always there...it is you who has to return”
― Munia Khan

“A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

“Hatutakiwi kuishi kama raia wa Tanzania peke yake. Tunatakiwa kuishi kama raia wa dunia na watumishi wa utu, hasa katika kipindi hiki cha zama za utandawazi. Sina lazima ya kutoka nje kufanya utafiti wa kazi zangu siku hizi. Nje ninayo hapa ndani!”
― Enock Maregesi

“แปลกดี ผมคิดถึงบ้าน ขณะอยู่ในบ้าน”
― ธนชาติ ศิริภัทราชัย, New York 1st Time

“Living in a country where I didn't speak the language suited me just fine. Everything was an adventure, including buying milk at the corner store. I developed the art of getting lost... It was a safe kind of chaos, and at some point that I was cultivating my 'aloneness' in this strange place as a method for putting off loneliness.”
― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

“Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.”
― Bailey Richert, Prepare, Travel, Return: A Beginner's Guide to Globetrotting

“Give An African Child Or Adult A Enabled Environment And Proper Facilities Like In The West And See The Many Great Wonders That Would Be Manifested Through This Often Criticized Race. In My Own Case I Was More Fortunate, But Later Transformed From A Soft Heart Person To A Very Stubborn And Stone Heart Person To Enable Me Push On Through. All Those Who Knew Me Could Tell You Of Me Very Well Home And Abroad.”
― Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

“Volunteering abroad is a powerful force for change but only if you choose the right project.”
― Volunteer 4 Africa

“I've been living for too long abroad and aboard,
Methinking the concept of being grounded or floored.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel. About an hour later, we stopped to sell a few hundred of the chickens to a butcher shop.”
― Jennifer S. Alderson, Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand

“I learned my English language, because I love to study, seriously. I am different. Belgium is watching, India and Pakistan. Do not forget Germany.”
― Petra Hermans

“People abroad are laughing, out loud. You know.”
― Petra Hermans

“Gopal here tells me of your plans to go abroad. This wanderlust in the bright young men of our land is a curse for the rest of us.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Game of Big Numbers

“If you have not prepared your mind yet to climb the ladder to greatness when you travel abroad, you had better stay back home, because the moment you cross the outer edge of your country to another, you will be blown by an irreversible breeze of change. Therefore, no matter how long you may spend in abroad, you will never return home the same again, it is either the people laugh with you or they at you.”
― Elijah Onyemmeri

“If you have not yet prepared your mind to climb the ladder to greatness when you travel abroad, you had better stay where you are, for the moment you cross the outer edge of your country into another, you will be blown about by an irreversible breeze of change. Therefore, no matter how long you spend abroad, you will never return home to who you were before, it is either the people laugh with you or they laugh at you.”
― Godwin Elijah

“If you have not yet prepared your mind to climb the ladder to greatness when you travel abroad, you had better stay where you are, for the moment you cross the outer edge of your country into another, you will be blown about by an irreversible breeze of change. Therefore, no matter how long you spend abroad, you will never return home to who you were before, it is either the people laugh with you or they laugh at you.”
― Elijah Onyemmeri

“The only leader, who dares to speak in Hindi while addressing world forums or a wide diaspora of NRIs abroad, is Modi Ji.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“Ultimately, the benefits of moving overseas are many and varied, and it's an experience that can positively impact your life in countless ways. So if you have the opportunity to move abroad, go for it and embrace the adventure!”
― L.E. Makaroff, Branching Out: The Biology Career Handbook from Consultancy to Biotech

“Suddenly another even faster flashback throws me to a conversation I had with a friend two years ago where I learned I'm self-destructive at points. 'Yes,' I reassured her as she warned me about coming to Finland. "I'll throw everything down if it gets ugly." I'm not sure of what she meant, but I know I meant that If I knew I was going to crash, I'd gas the fuck out of that vehicle, ensuring no survival.”
― Leonardo Berch, Fragments of Self: a novel of love across borders