Immigrant Quotes · Page 6

Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.

— Gianfranco Fini

There are few countries in the world where you can go in one generation from immigrant to parliamentarian.

— Kemi Badenoch

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

— Pamela Anderson

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

— Arthur Rock

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

— Tao Lin

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

— Vine Deloria Jr

Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard.

— Frank Grillo

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

— Andrew Lam

We're getting a very different kind of immigrant now, and it began as a specific plan to bring in lots of more…

— Ann Coulter

DACA led to a mass influx of illegal immigrant children crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. who came believing they would…

— Mark Meadows

I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work…

— Marcus Samuelsson

'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with…

— John Cho

In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen…

— Karamo Brown

I'm an immigrant, a legal immigrant to the United States. I only became a citizen five years ago. Every day, for seven…

— Sebastian Gorka

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology…

— Jan C. Ting

I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx,…

— Dan Rosensweig

I've always said that Miguel Pinero's story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized…

— Benjamin Bratt

“Six month of sitting home, six month of doing absolutely nothing but watching TV, going out, sleeping, getting drunk and sleeping again.…

— Ellie Midwood

My mom was a secretary, which actually was very beneficial because I got to go to work with her and see lawyers,…

— Ruben Gallego

I'm an immigrant to the U.S., and I've constantly been thinking about America both from the inside and from the outside. And…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Giving people like me a green card, a passport, and a driver's license? That's not going to be the end of the…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

There will always be frictions when you have a foreign worker population or immigrant population in the country, and we have to…

— Lee Hsien Loong

I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My…

— Frank Oz

I'm really interested in the United States, what it means to be American - maybe because my father's an immigrant and my…

— Micah Perks

I had a lot of ups and downs. Being an immigrant in this country is incredibly difficult.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

— Paul Bettany

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

— Ambrose Bierce

I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know…

— Samin Nosrat

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a…

— Mickey Kaus

I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in…

— Eddie Huang

I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States.…

— Anousheh Ansari

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get…

— Joseph O'Neill

Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that…

— Jenny Zhang

I was an immigrant twice, once from Egypt to Israel. Israel opened her arms and took me in. And America opened her…

— Haim Saban

“I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States.…

— Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an…

— Pete Seeger

“President Trump wants immigration to deny citizenship to disabled immigrant workers that have had their health damaged by toxic USA employers.”

— Steven Magee

As an immigrant girl, I never imagined that running for office, especially in the United States, would be something that I would…

— Young Kim

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia,…

— Neel Mukherjee

I see the Conservative party becoming more and more attractive to people from all different backgrounds, particularly because so many of the…

— Grant Shapps