My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was…

My father's immigrant story is a big part of who I am.

— Tom Suozzi

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded…

— Arlen Specter

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

— Mickey Kaus

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

— Herbie Mann

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the…

— Samuel Alito

“I am having a quarter-life crisis," I announced to my mother. "My generation never had those, we just had babies and thought about killing…

— Zoe Whittall

There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised…

— Carrie Fisher

The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that,…

— Anna Quindlen

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

— Sara Sheridan

Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores.…

— Emily Oster

I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My mother is…

— Leslie Jordan

This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing…

— Sherry Lansing

“John Quincy Adams subscribed to the thesis that his mother's generation was unique when he complained to [his wife] that there were no modern…

— Cokie Roberts

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

— Lord Byron