Forced Departure Quotes

The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!

Leaving 'GH' was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

When I was at Madrid, I knew even by the December of that season that I would be sacked, and if they hadn't dismissed me, I would have resigned.

The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

OK, let's get this mother out of here.

I don't like being run out of any town.

My parents left Germany in a very, very precarious way.

And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

Why did I leave Valencia? Because the club needed me to. I was happy there and wouldn't have left, but the situation the club was in demanded it.

Louisiana is a place that you escape, not a place that you leave.

I never said I wanted to leave Real Madrid. I never wanted that, but you have to move when they don't want you.

I was forced to leave my hometown, and Napoli sold me to Juventus.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.

After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that 'Bill Shawn will stay here as long as he wants to be here.' Well, he wanted to be here until he died, but he wasn't allowed to.

My wife and son cried when we left Portugal, but I had to move.

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?

I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.