My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England. Alan Bradley
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. Frederic Raphael
I wish their surplus population would emigrate to the United States. Ulysses S. Grant
In the West, we have easier ways now to make a killing than killing. If Sir Francis Drake, the great admiral-pirate of Elizabethan England, were a young man today, would he emigrate to Somalia to get a start in the piracy industry? Of course not. He'd apply for a job at Goldman Sachs. Steve Sailer
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour. Charles Sturt