John Grant Quotes

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

As a 4-star admiral, I visited over a hundred U.S. embassies all around the world, and I never failed to see lines of locals seeking visas to our nation.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

By the time I was 19 years old, I had lived in five different cities in four different countries and three different continents.

I was born in Argentina, and have lived in England, Ireland, Africa and Malta.

You can have your country and be pleased to welcome others to it. You can have your country and still enjoy living elsewhere.

I've been influenced by my travels across India and the globe.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.

When my family was living in Tokyo, there was a year when we couldn't go back to the States for Thanksgiving, and we went to Seoul. Mandu is a highly satisfying substitute for turkey and trimmings.

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.

I have the travel documents. I have a green card. I can go anywhere.

I've lived in so many different countries over the years. I spent most of my early life in the UK, five years in Germany and summers in Austria before moving to Paris.

Very good players have no problem moving to a different country.

I want to bring my children up in a world where we're free to travel and work wherever we want, and in a society that takes care of immigrants and refugees.

I didn't get out of India till I was 15 years old, and I went to Malaysia with my father for an exhibition. And after that international visit, the next time I stepped on foreign shores was for the Miss Universe pageant at the age of 18.