America Quote by Bryce Dessner

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants…

— Alexis Denisof

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

— Martin Lewis Perl

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the…

— Robert Fogel

I was born in Poland, and then I was six years in France. I returned to Poland, and then, at the age of eight…

— Miroslav Klose

My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish…

— Francois Englert

I was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., before my father got an appointment at a university in Italy and we moved to Italy. I spend…

— Pavel Durov

At the age of 16, my father, mother and I had come to America from Poland in hopes of a better life.

— Sebastian Janikowski

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

— Arthur Rock

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people…

— Maria Sharapova

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

— Vic Mensa

I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.

— Ksenia Solo

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

— Mitch Kapor