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1 " In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places. "
― Wallace Stegner , Wolf Willow
2 " Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things. "
― Tahir Shah , Travels With Myself
3 " Constant comparisons are the stamp of the foreigner; one continually translates manners and customs of a new country into terms of his own, before he can fully comprehend them. "
― Willa Cather , Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey
4 " Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them. "
― Tahir Shah , In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
5 " The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal. "
― , The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications
6 " You're mad, you missionaries,' ejaculated Tai Haruru angrily. 'What good do you think you do, crawling out to the extremities of all the different world's ends and dying there like lizards spiked on sticks?'Brother Balaam jabbed his thumb over his shoulder at the church behind him. 'Ye'll get no civilization worth havin' in a new country unless ye lay down a few martyrs' bones for a foundation,' he said. 'They generate. Slow but sure. "
― Elizabeth Goudge , Green Dolphin Street
7 " These are the stories that never never die that are carried like seed into a new country are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths. "
