Welcome to our collection of captivating foreign country quotes! Across the globe, diverse cultures and landscapes inspire profound reflections and sentiments. Whether you’re an intrepid traveler or an armchair explorer, these quotes offer glimpses into the essence of different countries, their people, and their ways of life.
Traveling to foreign lands opens doors to new experiences, broadens perspectives, and fosters understanding between nations. From the bustling streets of Tokyo to the serene landscapes of the Scottish Highlands, each destination holds its own charm and allure. Through the words of poets, writers, and adventurers, we invite you to embark on a journey of discovery, where the essence of a country is captured in eloquent phrases and evocative imagery.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes that encapsulate the essence of various foreign countries. Feel free to explore, extract, and use these quotes to adorn your images, enhance your social media posts, or simply to ponder upon the beauty and diversity of our world. Let these words transport you to distant shores, stirring your wanderlust and igniting your curiosity.
As far as Malaysia is concerned, Singapore is a foreign country. Mahathir Mohamad
Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense. Magic Johnson
Moving to Liverpool was a new world for me. I had been living with my parents in Holland, and all of a sudden I was living in a foreign country on my own. Ryan Babel
I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get ‘CSI’ not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it’s playing in the U.S. Leslie Moonves
I like picking up accessories as and when I see something I like – whether its from my travels on the streets of a foreign country or more mainstream labels like Accessorize. Hazel Keech
Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country. Camila Morrone
I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It’s like being someone else. J. M. G. Le Clezio
As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It’s the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person. Eniola Aluko
I couldn’t settle in Italy – it was like living in a foreign country. Ian Rush
Im quite a family-orientated person, so being over here in a foreign country – by myself – for the first time with a big new job was daunting. Madeleine Madden
At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized. Karen DeCrow
My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality. Ken Watanabe
The interference of a foreign country in our elections is an assault on the government of the United States. Heather Cox Richardson
I couldn’t make it work, in the end, in Tulsa or Dallas – in the middle of this foreign country without my support system. Liz Cambage
Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair… Change my name, just see what happens. Larry David
You would think that growing up in a foreign country would be so easy and fitting in would be a piece of cake, and although my parents were completely liberal and allowed us the opportunity to explore this world, I always felt as though I was searching for people that were more like me. Shibani Dandekar
Going to a foreign country, winning championships, having a statue, getting a green card, the key to the city, a museum – that’s not something I can say I could ever see happening. Stephon Marbury
We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country. Paul Cellucci
If you’re a juvenile delinquent today, you’re a hacker. You live in your parent’s house; they haven’t seen you for two months. They put food outside your door, and you’re shutting down a government of a foreign country from your computer. John Waters
When I go to a foreign country I want to explore and get lost, discover the real place. Brook Lopez
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange – the food, the customs, the climate, everything. Deborah Moggach
There’s something with the physical size of America… American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. Mark Haddon
I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible… for me, that was like a foreign country. William Klein
I moved to Queens, New York, when I was seven and a half. I went to middle school in a foreign country, but I had so many different kinds of Americans push me along and encourage me. I was very odd. I didn’t talk very well. We were poor, and we didn’t have any connections, but people showed up and pushed me along. Min Jin Lee
There is no constitutional right for a citizen in a foreign country, who has no status in America, to demand entry into our country. Such a right cannot exist. Such a right will never exist. Stephen Miller
If a foreign country doesn’t look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. Lewis H. Lapham
The South is like a foreign country to me! Richard LaGravenese
I was journaling in Florence, and I was like, ‘Oh, I have to come out of the closet. I have to break up with this guy’ – he was my ‘roommate.’ So that was my awakening moment, when I stepped into my own skin while in a foreign country by myself and had a very stereotypical moment of revelation. Jonathan Groff
I have serious concerns about whether it’s prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we’re sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt. Tim Johnson
We need to know who’s in the United States. We need to know everyone who’s in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren’t. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol. Rudy Giuliani
Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country. Marguerite Duras
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can’t find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. Elizabeth Gilbert
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. Cameron Diaz
I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You’re more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you’re also taken more at face value, which makes you more able to be yourself. Sophie
Australia lives with a strange contradiction – our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country. Kate Grenville
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling
Every U.S. citizen should have the assurance that the U.S. government will come vigorously to their defense in a time of need, especially when they are unjustly tried in a foreign country. Trent Franks
I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage. Ken Watanabe
If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I’d become a terrorist, too. I’d go to war against the U.S. Jesse Ventura
I don’t mind being by myself, even in a foreign country. Brooks Koepka
All of life is a foreign country. Jack Kerouac
People ask if I miss it, but they don’t understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there’s nothing to miss. I don’t see myself moving back. It’s not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country. David Sedaris
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense. John O. Brennan
I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn’t know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it… America was like a foreign country to me at first. Thelma Schoonmaker
It’s always nice to have somebody with the same accent when you’re working in a foreign country. Sarah Snook
That’s why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn’t matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that’s one thing about my work: It’s universal. Herb Ritts
Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country. Sarah Bernhardt
When I was growing up, my mum was doing illegal smuggling with China. Sometimes she would see a fortune teller for advice. One time I went with her: ‘In your future, you’ll be living in foreign country and eating the foreign country rice,’ she said. Lee Hyeon-seo
The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go ‘off the reservation, into Indian Country.’ Winona LaDuke
In Ehrenfeld, we were all jammed together. All the fathers were foreign-born – Welsh, Irish, Polish, Sicilian. We were so jammed together, we picked up each other’s accents. And we spoke some broken English. When I got into the service, people used to think I was from a foreign country. Charles Bronson
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. Clifton Fadiman
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country. Ed O’Brien
Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don’t understand it. It’s like America has lost faith in rational thought. Jim Mattis
Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country. Evan Bayh
There are not a lot of German players out there who are successful in a foreign country. Per Mertesacker
