Immigrant Quotes

I was an illegal immigrant.

— Salma Hayek

I'm an immigrant.

— Jimmy Barnes

I'm a first generation immigrant.

— Rishi Sunak

We are an immigrant nation.

— Blase J. Cupich

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

— Sofia Kenin

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

My mother is basically an immigrant because she came from Tonga.

— Jabari Parker

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

— John Cho

American literature has always been immigrant.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a proud Cuban-Mexican immigrant.

— Ozuna

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

— Hiro Murai

I was born to Chinese immigrant parents, who came from Taiyuan.

— May Pang

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

— George J. Mitchell

For many immigrant groups, lack of trust in authority is something they actually bring from the countries they come from.

— Kemi Badenoch

“Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday! Roxanne Catherine Mapp”

— Roxanne Catherine Mapp

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

— Jimmy O. Yang

“It was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant”

— Nayyirah Waheed

But I try to play everything very authentically, even if it is an accented immigrant, Jian Yang, that I play on 'Silicon…

— Jimmy O. Yang

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the…

— Robert Klein

Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies…

— Amitava Kumar

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too…

— Anzia Yezierska

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

My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older…

— Diane Guerrero

When you look at what's written under the Statue of Liberty, it's the immigrant story. It's about 'bring me your tired, your…

— Daniel Dae Kim

I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for…

— Opal Tometi

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant…

— Peter Capaldi

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I've always said that Miguel Pinero's story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized…

— Benjamin Bratt

Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the…

— Anzia Yezierska

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

“Six month of sitting home, six month of doing absolutely nothing but watching TV, going out, sleeping, getting drunk and sleeping again.…

— Ellie Midwood

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

My mom was a secretary, which actually was very beneficial because I got to go to work with her and see lawyers,…

— Ruben Gallego

There will always be frictions when you have a foreign worker population or immigrant population in the country, and we have to…

— Lee Hsien Loong

Yeah, I'm a young immigrant and I came to Canada with nothing.

— Ahmad Balshe

I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.

— Luis Gutierrez

I'm still the community college kid with immigrant parents.

— Jimmy Gomez

In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.

— Andrew Lam