Immigrant Quotes · Page 5

The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation.

— Luis Gutierrez

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above…

— Ted Cruz

I think it's so wonderful to show a child of immigrant parents who's proud of their culture and doesn't neglect it.

— Iman Vellani

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

— Florian Znaniecki

As an immigrant from South Korea with family members who fled North Korea, supporting the North Korean people is personal to me.

— Young Kim

Other Asian actors, especially American-born actors, sometimes shy away from immigrant roles.

— Jimmy O. Yang

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

— Laila Lalami

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant…

— Laila Lalami

I'm the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm an immigrant. My aspirations coming out of college weren't…

— Geisha Williams

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest…

— Henry Louis Gates

Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my…

— Maz Jobrani

Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal…

— Newt Gingrich

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and…

— Suheir Hammad

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful…

— Konnie Huq

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at…

— Eric Schlosser

My dad was a scientist. More than that: my dad grew up in a tiny terraced house in Swansea, the only child…

— David Baddiel

“Being an immigrant is not a status but a state of mind. It doesn’t stop when you “assimilate” or “integrate” or when…

— Stewart Stafford

I don't really consider myself an immigrant, because I was born French; I have always spoken the language. I never had the…

— Leila Slimani

What I love most about New York is that I can walk in the street and nobody is looking at me as…

— Rula Jebreal

Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the…

— Anzia Yezierska

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates…

— Theodore Roosevelt

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

— Rita Moreno

“As long as we build walls around our cities, we make desperate people who want to come in more resolute to bring…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college…

— Camille Paglia

I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile,

— Ha Jin

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never…

— Zinedine Zidane

My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.

— Andy Dunn

I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.

— Rick Santelli

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

— Josiah Strong

“Illegal Immigrant in every state, for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

— Robert Plant

I was one of the only children having an immigrant father in my elementary school.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

— Conor Oberst

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such…

— Pope Francis

Brick Lane' is actually a place in London where many Bangladeshis live. It is about one such Bangladeshi immigrant family.

— Satish Kaushik

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

— Theodore Roosevelt