Passport Quotes

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

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.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"

In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

My face is my passport.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson.

I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt more than happy just to be at home here in Canada.

The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.