Boat Quote by Bob Cousy

As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.

— Frank Lowy

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

— James Gray

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.

— Erik Larson

I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in…

— Richard Clayderman

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

— will.i.am

I was born in a little town called Lund in British Columbia. It's like a fishing village. My parents were hippies. They tried to…

— Stewart Butterfield

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000…

— Howard Schultz

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a…

— Hong Chau

My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money…

— Laura Moser

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the…

— J. August Richards

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

— Daisy Fuentes