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  • My passport's green. -- Seamus Heaney
  • My face is my passport. -- Vladimir Horowitz
  • Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore
  • I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me. -- Waris Ahluwalia
  • Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. -- Malcolm X
  • I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. -- Robert Smith
  • I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. -- Jon Anderson
  • There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. -- Erma Bombeck
  • Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. -- Shane Smith
  • It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. -- Julie Burchill
  • I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?' -- Grace Hopper
  • 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. -- Herman Melville
  • 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. -- Edward Burnett Tylor
  • My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings. -- Patrick Demarchelier
  • 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. -- David Ben-Gurion
  • 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. -- Matthew Simpson
  • 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. -- Jack White
  • 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. -- Damien Hirst
  • 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. -- Michael Moore
  • Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling. -- Sally Phillips
  • 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. -- Lisa Snowdon
  • 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. -- Joanna Lumley
  • What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed. -- Timothy Hutton
  • Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring. -- Quincy Jones
  • Prayer is the passport to peace. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • Education is our passport to the future. -- Malcolm X
  • The passport changes but the blood doesn't -- Mario Andretti
  • All effective actions require the passport of morality. -- Saul
  • I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U. -- Conrad Black
  • I had to get a second passport in a hurry. -- Andrew Young
  • We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport. -- Alfonso Cuaron
  • I'm saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too. -- Xiaolu Guo
  • He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. -- Graham Greene
  • My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day. -- John Steinbeck
  • The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport. -- Zadie Smith
  • The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life. -- Theodore Parker
  • Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. -- Seamus Heaney
  • Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home. -- Erma Bombeck
  • I always have my passport on me, as well as two currencies. -- Jennifer Morrison
  • I find having your own car is like a passport to the world. -- Gloria Whelan
  • My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport. -- Joan Chen
  • Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it. -- Katharine Brush
  • If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey. -- Earl Wilson
  • I found someones passport on the ground tonight. Where do you sell these things? -- Dane Cook
  • If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel. -- Vivian Fuchs
  • You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. -- Seamus Heaney
  • It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport. -- Walter Raleigh
  • Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport. -- Anton Chekhov
  • My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. -- Jack Higgins
  • Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends. -- James Thomas Fields
  • Use your passport for domestic trips, so that way you don't risk losing your license. -- Jen Kirkman
  • What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world! -- Sarah Josepha Hale
  • The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
  • Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And its true, wherever you go. -- Benh Zeitlin
  • One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. -- Jon Anderson
  • The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you. -- Michael Nutter
  • The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. -- Taiye Selasi
  • Yes, it's my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it. -- Neon Hitch
  • My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me. -- Ashley Madekwe
  • I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson. -- Shelley Duvall
  • When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness. -- Yves Saint Laurent
  • When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country. -- Taslima Nasrin
  • Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom. -- Paulo Coelho
  • I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian. -- Amit Bhatia
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  • If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you. -- Chuck D
  • My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. -- Steve McCurry
  • Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. -- Malcolm X
  • The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. -- E. L. Doctorow
  • I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport. -- Garry Kasparov
  • From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun. -- Bertolt Brecht
  • You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport. -- Rick Owens
  • Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans. -- Geert Wilders
  • The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship. -- Vanessa Redgrave
  • In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it. -- Bo Derek
  • The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it. -- Christopher Monckton
  • I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can't afford to forget. -- Warsan Shire
  • My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one. -- Klaus Barbie
  • Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Captain America?' They would burn my passport. -- Louis Leterrier
  • You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal. -- Tony Abbott
  • One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart -- Carlos Santana
  • Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it. -- David Foster Wallace
  • You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus. -- George Harrison
  • When I'm applying for a new passport, or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher. -- Kit Harington
  • I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time. -- Mother Teresa
  • 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. -- Ben Kingsley
  • I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform. -- Chuck D
  • I go to the Caribbean for a month every January with hand baggage only. All you need is a passport and a credit card. -- John Niven
  • A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel. -- Henry Rollins
  • No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier. -- Amos Oz
  • 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
  • Your patriarchal blessing is your passport to peace in this life. It is a Liahona of light to guide you unerringly to your heavenly home. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy. -- Geraldine Brooks
  • There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went. -- Ani DiFranco
  • A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him. -- Phyllis Diller
  • If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting. -- David K. Shipler
  • In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport. -- Amos Oz
  • The process of establishing the identity of passport applicants needs to be strengthened by introducing a requirement for some applicants to attend a passport office in person. -- Des Browne
  • Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness. -- Alfred Billings Street
  • Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen. -- Dean Rusk
  • No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport. -- Anna Quindlen
  • Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being. -- Stefan Zweig
  • To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep. -- Dave Barry
  • The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked -- Meg Rosoff
  • I do so much travelling in my work that my suitcase is always packed, with my passport ready. I rarely unpack, as I am constantly on the move. -- Jools Holland
  • 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
  • A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached. -- Nina Berman
  • Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether. -- Alan Huffman
  • The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport. -- Mario Andretti
  • These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country. -- Harry Belafonte
  • I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us. -- John Guare
  • When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here. -- Geert Wilders
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