Stranger

Famous quotes containing the word stranger:

“I have been a stranger in a strange land.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 2:22.

Moses, referring to his time in Egypt.

“A stranger came one night to Yussouf’s tent,
Saying, “Behold one outcast and in dread,
Against whose life the bow of power is bent,
Who flies, and hath not where to lay his head;
I come to thee for shelter and for food,
To Yussouf, called through all our tribes ‘he Good.’ “

“This tent is mine,” said Yussouf, “but no more
Than it is God’s; come in, and be at peace;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

“The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 14:10.