Immigrant Quotes · Page 4

Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.

— Opal Tometi

I know as a nation we are stronger because of our immigrant tradition.

— Brad Schneider

“This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength.”

— Gary Shteyngart

I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents.

— Winnie Harlow

My parents are small business owners, and the Korean community, like a lot of immigrant communities, is very much owner-driven.

— Su-chin Pak

When you're an immigrant family, the upbringing, the mentality and the opportunities are all different.

— Kelvin Gastelum

I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.

— Lidia Bastianich

When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.

— Ted Cruz

To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of the State of California and stand…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

That's sort of part of the American ethic - is not to worry too much about the past and that it shouldn't…

— Alex Wagner

I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even…

— Saul Rubinek

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act…

— Anonymous

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past,…

— Vincent Cassel

There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated…

— Safra A. Catz

Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone…

— Peter Bergen

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is…

— Alberto Ríos

For me, as an immigrant who didn't speak the language, when I would have struggles as a kid, my dad would say,…

— Ilhan Omar

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not…

— Sigrid Nunez

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to…

— Ilhan Omar

When I go to Colombia or Mexico, I speak Spanish. When I go to Italy, I speak Italian. When I'm in Germany,…

— Trish Regan

If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey…

— Richard Benjamin

We still had all our problems growing up as a struggling immigrant family, but Australia was like a breath of fresh air,…

— Jimmy Barnes

Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot…

— John Cho

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

— David Byrne

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

— George J. Mitchell

“Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday! Roxanne Catherine Mapp”

— Roxanne Catherine Mapp

“It was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

— Jimmy O. Yang

For many immigrant groups, lack of trust in authority is something they actually bring from the countries they come from.

— Kemi Badenoch

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

— Samuel P. Huntington

“you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant”

— Nayyirah Waheed

But I try to play everything very authentically, even if it is an accented immigrant, Jian Yang, that I play on 'Silicon…

— Jimmy O. Yang

My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

— Virgil Abloh

“To be an immigrant, good or bad, is about straddling two homes, whilst knowing you don't really belong to either.”

— Nikesh Shukla

For immigrant families, television is what connects you to American culture, but it's also what makes you feel like an outsider.

— Nahnatchka Khan

I think any immigrant who comes to this country also knows somebody who is undocumented.

— Nico Santos

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but…

— Toni Morrison

I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

— Min Jin Lee

I'm a liberally minded immigrant, leading a predominantly liberal workforce hailing from predominantly liberal cities and countries.

— Tobias Lutke