“So they say things like, “Go back to your country,” as if their Irish ancestors never walked through Ellis Island.” — Dominique Christina Ashaheed Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories. — James Gray Copy Share Image
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“My hands are clammy. It’s a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we’re walking into. The last time I felt this… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Obviously there is a great deal of heart in the show. You see Ellis Island, you see the Statue of Liberty. But… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“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… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
I always remember to go on the Staten Island Ferry because it's the most amazing view of New York. And it's free!… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
“My hands are clammy. It’s a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we’re walking into. The last time I felt this… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
“A Jew ain't only a religion, and it ain't a race. It isn't an ethnicity, and you aren't disqualified if you're good… — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
“America and Greece are at different stops on the same one-way street, all too familiar to us immigrants. There's nothing new about… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
When they got here, when they successfully emigrated - and not everybody that came through Ellis Island was accepted. If you were… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“On Chicken Parmesan: It was all downhill from there. Eventually, the boneless chicken breast replaced the chicken breast as America’s favorite tasteless… — Gordon Vivace Copy Share Image
“He greeted me in his usual attire - pajama pants. "Hey stranger!" he said, hugging me for a few long seconds. "I've… — Inna Swinton Copy Share Image
“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“ Gate C22 At gate C22 in the Portland airport a man in a broad-band leather hat kissed a woman arriving from… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“A familiar image of a grim, frozen Russia is the babushka, the old woman, hunched and determined, head wrapped in a scarf.… — Lev Golinkin Copy Share Image
Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the… — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America. — Beto O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a… — Gavin DeGraw Copy Share Image
I know very little about my great grandparents, who came through Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, settled in Baltimore, and… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
Well, I do want to talk about the challenges at the border. New Mexico, if you will, has become an Ellis Island… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“It had been two years since we left our home on the west coast of Ireland. Life was hard there, too; our… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
