Migration Quotes

Migration Quote of the day

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy "migration utility" through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.

Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.

Europe can only hold together and stand together, which is very important in times of migration challenges, terrorism challenges, if each country takes responsibility for itself.

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

We have to cease the migration of Arab potential to the west; they should be respected in their own countries.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

The world has changed around Europe. It is not only the migration crisis that has shown Europe is not up for challenge.

I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.

My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird

In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative. More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.

Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration.