American Quote by Bill Dedman

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were…

— Huston Smith

“On January 12, 1779, an eleven-year-old New England boy named John Quincy”

— Paul C. Nagel

My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled to Green…

— Tony Shalhoub

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an…

— David Lee

My dad, John, was from China and he met mum after he moved here in the 1960s.

— Gok Wan

For a brief period, I had a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania, but even then, I kept a place in New York.

— Alan Menken

I pretty much figured out in grade school that we weren't the stereotypical American family.

— Xander Schauffele

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died -…

— George J. Mitchell

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

— Martin Lewis Perl

I grew up a few years after John Kelly in an identical neighborhood in the other side of Boston and I went to high…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

— Ice T

“In 1782 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, in Letters from an American Farmer wrote:            “Whence came all these people? They are…

— John Price