Population Movement Quotes

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

I think humans are migratory animals.

Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.

Emigrate or Degenerate.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place.

The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

Emigration is the great fact of Irish social history.

Urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of our time.

You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.

It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Nearly all of us came here [Maine] as immigrants.

Inhabitants flock in here daily, mostly from Pennsylvania and other parts of America, who are over-stocked with people and [some] make directly from Europe; they commonly seat themselves towards the West, and have got near the mountains.

I do hope after my crossing that more people will follow suit.

Emigration is always a difficulty.

I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

Invite colonists from all the other nations of Europe.

The influx of migrants must be stopped.