I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people…

When they got here, when they successfully emigrated - and not everybody that came through Ellis Island was accepted. If you were sick you…

— Rush Limbaugh

“A familiar image of a grim, frozen Russia is the babushka, the old woman, hunched and determined, head wrapped in a scarf. Her gnarled…

— Lev Golinkin

“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter…

— Pete Hamill

“So they say things like, “Go back to your country,” as if their Irish ancestors never walked through Ellis Island.”

— Dominique Christina Ashaheed

“He greeted me in his usual attire - pajama pants. "Hey stranger!" he said, hugging me for a few long seconds. "I've already set…

— Inna Swinton

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish…

— Arthur Hertzberg

The diversity in the CNN makeup room - it's like Ellis Island! No, it's like Noah's Ark: there are two of everything.

— Ana Navarro

He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also…

— Rainbow Rowell

We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions…

— Walter Weyl

I always remember to go on the Staten Island Ferry because it's the most amazing view of New York. And it's free! You see…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

“You like Nick a lot, don't you, Nora?" Dorothy asked. "He's an old Greek fool, but I'm used to him." "Charles isn't a Greek…

— Dashiell Hammett

Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil,…

— Paul Merton

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg…

— Fran Lebowitz

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether…

— Carol Moseley Braun

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New…

— James Gray