Passports – Quotes

I get called ‘Memphis

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. Eve Hewson

There is nothing more

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

When you look like

When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home. Erma Bombeck

I’m constantly seen as

I’m constantly seen as a ‘foreigner,’ and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work. Emmanuel Jal

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. Emma Goldman

I have an identity

I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I’m a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I’ve held an American passport and I’ve spent my whole adult life in between New York and … Read more

I\\’m a dual citizen,

I’m a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we’re weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere. Emily Mortimer

Consular cards were not

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose. Elton Gallegly

Here in America, marriage

Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than \”married\” is considered temporary and not worthy of honor. Elizabeth Gilbert

But complex people are

But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing. Elizabeth Bowen