Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard. — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
There are few countries in the world where you can go in one generation from immigrant to parliamentarian. — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. — Arthur Rock Copy Share Image
My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a… — Mickey Kaus Copy Share Image
I had a lot of ups and downs. Being an immigrant in this country is incredibly difficult. — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States.… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted… — Johan Cruyff Copy Share Image
My mom was a secretary, which actually was very beneficial because I got to go to work with her and see lawyers,… — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with… — John Cho Copy Share Image
In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration,… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“President Trump wants immigration to deny citizenship to disabled immigrant workers that have had their health damaged by toxic USA employers.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I kind of lived my whole life with people, on a Navy ship, and I'm son of an immigrant.… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
Lower-income immigrant families might receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes. But that mathematical equilibrium is temporary, and an artifact… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the… — Cristina Henriquez Copy Share Image
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Immigrant workers have become essential to the U.S. workforce, contributing across sectors and playing a noteworthy role in our country's economy. — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
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