Stranger Quotes

Tragically, the rights of those who were here long before us were not always respected. For those peoples and their nations, from the heart of American democracy, I wish to reaffirm my highest esteem and appreciation. Those first contacts were often turbulent and violent, but it is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present. Nonetheless, when the stranger in our midst appeals to us, we must not repeat the sins and the errors of the past. We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new generations not to turn their back on our 'neighbors' and everything around us.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges.

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

So, there lies the brave de Kalb. The generous stranger, who came from a distant land to fight our battles and to water with his blood the tree of liberty. Would to God he had lived to share its fruits!

People are strange when you're a stranger.

My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.

Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to probability, and truth ain't.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.