Immigrant Quotes · Page 5

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

— Andrew Lam

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

— Vine Deloria Jr

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

— Paul Bettany

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

— Ambrose Bierce

I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know…

— Samin Nosrat

I had a lot of ups and downs. Being an immigrant in this country is incredibly difficult.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a…

— Mickey Kaus

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

What are you sayin, Pop? That because I'm a greasy immigrant, all I can do is clean fish? That ain't enough! I…

— Lucky Luciano

I made 'The Farewell' for me, for my family, and for other immigrant children, or children of immigrants, who feel caught in-between…

— Lulu Wang

Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are…

— Mark Helprin

I can't speak for everybody, and I don't want to say it for an entire culture, but for me, coming from an…

— Lulu Wang

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I was very heartened by Rupert Murdoch's passionate interest in immigration reform. He is an immigrant himself. He understands from a business…

— Valerie Jarrett

As an immigrant girl, I never imagined that running for office, especially in the United States, would be something that I would…

— Young Kim

“President Trump wants immigration to deny citizenship to disabled immigrant workers that have had their health damaged by toxic USA employers.”

— Steven Magee

I was raised to give back. I was born to immigrant parents and was fortunate to become successful at an early age.…

— Lee Iacocca

For me, in high school, as an immigrant, coming from an immigrant family, there were certain values we upheld. To some extent…

— Pokimane

Instead of talking points from the Republican Party on what the immigration system would look like, I actually bring the unique perspective…

— Young Kim

If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would…

— Jenni Rivera

I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw…

— Kamala Harris

I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the…

— Margaret Case Harriman

Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself,…

— Richard Carmona

My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer…

— John Oliver

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

— Josiah Strong

“Illegal Immigrant in every state, for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

— Conor Oberst

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such…

— Pope Francis

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

— Robert Plant

I was one of the only children having an immigrant father in my elementary school.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Brick Lane' is actually a place in London where many Bangladeshis live. It is about one such Bangladeshi immigrant family.

— Satish Kaushik

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.

— Gianfranco Fini

Other Asian actors, especially American-born actors, sometimes shy away from immigrant roles.

— Jimmy O. Yang

As an immigrant from South Korea with family members who fled North Korea, supporting the North Korean people is personal to me.

— Young Kim

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

— Florian Znaniecki

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

— Laila Lalami

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

— Rita Moreno