Immigrants Quotes · Page 4

Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.

— Mark Shields

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

— George Michael

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

— Rudolf Arnheim

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

— Grace Meng

When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.

— Ted Cruz

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

— Geert Wilders

“Illegal immigrants are to immigration what shoplifters are to shopping.”

— Jerry Agar

“People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.”

— Andrew Crofts

Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

— Conan O'Brien

My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

— Amine

We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump's plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to…

— Kellyanne Conway

When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and…

— Martin O'Malley

I reflect back on my mom's journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it…

— Lilly Singh

That is a reward that humbles me: the fact that immigrants coming to America, much like I did, can come into a…

— Do Won Chang

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from…

— William J. Clinton

Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to…

— Margaret Sanger

My grandmother raised me when I was little. I was born here, and my parents are immigrants; they needed someone to help…

— Crystal Hana Kim

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You [immigrants] have a culture, an identity, a history, something that…

— Mona Sahlin

I'd be 100 percent supportive of a minimum wage - kind of industry specific, maybe regionally specific - for guest workers, so…

— Ron Johnson

Where I live, there are a lot of businesses owned by Ethiopians and Eritreans. They're the new immigrants, the new Greeks -…

— George Pelecanos

“Refugees are not a monolith. Each journey is unique. Some arrive with dreams and aspirations; others carry the heavy burdens of trauma…

— Hagir Elsheikh

America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country…

— Pico Iyer

When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Do you realize what's been done to this whole definition of immigrants? The way Democrats and the left talk about immigration, immigration…

— Rush Limbaugh

You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for…

— Milton Friedman

“I made many decisions, some awful and others brilliant, but I found ways to keep that openness in my soul that meant…

— Sergio Troncoso

One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the…

— Richard Mercer Dorson

“Superorganism. A biologist coined that word for our great African ant colonies, claiming that consciousness and intelligence resided not in the individual…

— Abraham Verghese

America rejects bigotry. We reject every act of hatred against people of Arab background or Muslim faith America values and welcomes peaceful…

— George W. Bush

I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by…

— Hillary Clinton

Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to…

— Richard Rodriguez

The Declaration of Independence was only partially applied for women and for certain immigrants such as the Chinese. And it wasn't applied…

— Charles Koch

Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch.

— Joy Behar

An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.

— Mitt Romney

Immigrants are working hard to give our families a better life. Isn't that what the American Dream is?

— Diane Guerrero

We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.

— Zach Wamp

“Using Detained Immigrants For Cheap Labor The New York”

— Anonymous

People that have died 10 years ago are still voting, illegal immigrants are voting.

— Donald Trump

I think it's so important we're a nation of laws but also a nation of immigrants.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

We need someone who's going to govern on behalf of everyone in this country, including immigrants.

— Diane Guerrero