Foreign Born Populations

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, born and/or populations:

    “When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The populations of Pwllheli, Criccieth,
    Portmadoc, Borth, Tremadoc, Penrhyndeudraeth,
    Were all assembled. Criccieth’s mayor addressed them
    First in good Welsh and then in fluent English,”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)