Country Quote by Ato Essandoh

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

— Margaret Mead

My parents, or Asian parents in general, they're like, 'You should be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker' - all that's laid out.…

— Eric Nam

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

— Yvonne Orji

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a…

— Phillip Lim

My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers…

— Elif Batuman

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

My parents were migrants and I experienced first hand the challenges they had to overcome. If they hadn't decided to seek a better life…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

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

— Amine

My parents want me to be a lawyer or something like that. Something steady. That's always their main concern as parents: "Oh, you need…

— Thu Tran

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned…

— Roy Choi

“That is the great thing about being a foreigner—that you get to spend your life with a whole new set of cultural attachments in…

— Bill Bryson

Anybody who has been born into a particular family profession will have a much easier journey than someone who has not. It is as…

— Mohnish Bahl