I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because…

I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. There are so many of us who…

— Chantelle Brown-Young

As the youngest child of a single immigrant mother with a third-grade education, I never thought in my wildest dreams that I'd ever be…

— Kevin de Leon

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

On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an…

— Alexis Ohanian

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

— George J. Mitchell

My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite…

— Richard Cohen

Like Barack Obama's father, Trump's mother was an immigrant. But Trump doesn't often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail.

— Mary Pilon

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

— Alex Wagner

I am very proud to come from a diverse family. My mother is an immigrant from Japan and my father is from a steel…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world…

— Tess Gerritsen

Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes…

— Pamela Druckerman

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

— Dan Rosensweig

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

— Al Lewis

When I made the decision to run for governor, I couldn't help but think about the person who first inspired me to live a…

— Wes Moore

I feel excited about getting older as an actress, too. I think there are some amazing opportunities around the corner and I don't need…

— Sutton Foster