Immigrant Quotes · Page 4

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

— Max Boot

I'm an immigrant, and I think being an outsider in your home is something that I really relate to.

— Hiro Murai

It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.

— Gad Saad

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

— Junot Diaz

Too many of our immigrant communities have been forced to live in fear, uncertain about their futures.

— Cori Bush

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

— Ruchi Sanghvi

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

— Lisa Papademetriou

Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very…

— Jeff Sessions

I teach kids to read on a Saturday for this charity called Real Action. It's a voluntary school because lots of the…

— Rachael Stirling

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of…

— Daniel Libeskind

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of…

— Alain de Botton

I went to a very diverse school and its so important to showcase a child of immigrant parents who is proud of…

— Iman Vellani

I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven't focused so…

— Max Boot

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Depriving immigrant families of health care, healthy food, insurance, and antipoverty supports does not just hurt them. In the long term, it…

— Annie Lowrey

We still had all our problems growing up as a struggling immigrant family, but Australia was like a breath of fresh air,…

— Jimmy Barnes

If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes…

— Joy Reid

“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is…

— Alberto Ríos

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not…

— Sigrid Nunez

For me, as an immigrant who didn't speak the language, when I would have struggles as a kid, my dad would say,…

— Ilhan Omar

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to…

— Ilhan Omar

Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot…

— John Cho

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at…

— Eric Schlosser

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

— Karla Souza

I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

— Caitlin Flanagan

I'm a female black immigrant lawyer, who raised her kids in and around Toronto.

— Leslyn Lewis

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

— Luis Gutierrez

My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.

— Eric Garcetti

I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

— Adrian Beltre

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

— Jim Goldberg

We've got to do everything we can to speak to and protect our immigrant communities.

— Lori Lightfoot

The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

— Tania Bruguera

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

— Marc Veasey

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

— Arthur Rock

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

— Tao Lin

There are few countries in the world where you can go in one generation from immigrant to parliamentarian.

— Kemi Badenoch

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

— Pamela Anderson

Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard.

— Frank Grillo