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  • At one point, we were stuck at the border of Peru and Colombia and met this large Haitian population that was stranded there without passports and couldn't move. We had this revelation that, as tourists, we were so free to move, and here was this other population who couldn't cross borders.

    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

    Teacher   Strong   Home  
    The Scarlet Letter ch. 18 (1850)
  • My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

    Years   Cameras   France  
  • I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

    Color   People   Way  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I do so much travelling in my work that my suitcase is always packed, with my passport ready. I rarely unpack, as I am constantly on the move.

  • The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

    Christian   Pain   Self  
    Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”
  • For He hath prepared for them a City! Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to have any passport nor visa problems, they're not going to have to make sure you've got enough money to stay there awhile, it's YOUR town, your Hometown in Heaven, praise God? And they're all going to be your people! We're just going to be one nationality of one nation, ...we just haven't found the place yet, we haven't gotten there yet!

    Cities   People   Heaven  
  • The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as Christians view their God; they worship and adore the state and they render their lives and fortunes to it. Statists believe that their lives - their very being - are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is - and should be - dependent on the consent of the government. Thus, statists support such devices as income taxation, licensing laws, regulations, passports, trade restrictions, and the like.

    Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”
  • If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

    World   Might   Passports  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

    Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.266, Macmillan
  • We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

    Joy   Shining   Comfort  
    Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
  • Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

  • To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

    "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.
  • My face is my passport.

  • It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.

    Home   Writing   Holiday  
    "The Sadistic Muse". Interview with Laura Miller, February 10, 1998.
  • Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.

    Green   Passports   Ifs  
    'Open Letter' (Field Day pamphlet no. 2, 1983) p. 9, rebuking the editors of 'The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry' for including him among its authors
  • My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

    Freedom   Agony   White  
    Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media
  • I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.

    Doors   America   People  
    "I'm not good at playing the game" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2005.
  • I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.

    Names   Memphis   Firsts  
  • The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics
  • Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

  • An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

    Taken   Italian   Men  
    Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. September 1987.
  • The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

    Heart   Pages   Blank  
  • 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.

  • My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

    John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.156, Penguin
  • It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

    Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The history of the world”, p.3
  • Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . . . I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.

    Done   Want   Able  
  • I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

    "Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.
  • I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

  • When I got the women's marathon into the Olympics and we had races all over the world I thought, 'That's great, now we're heading towards total equality.' Then you see that there are women who are still not allowed to drive, get an education, or travel unless they have a male companion or can't carry their passport. There are those who are mired with incredible poverty in North Africa, the mid-east, South East Asia and there's a ridiculous amount of human trafficking.

    Race   World   Olympics  
    Source: runningmagazine.ca
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