Immigrant Quotes

192 quotes by 166 authors

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single… — Padma Lakshmi
Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define… — Louis C. K.
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant… — Will Eisner
People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side. — Tom Snyder
I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I… — Mazie Hirono
Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And were not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite.… — George W. Bush
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared… — Zadie Smith
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I… — Daniel Libeskind
Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. — Ambrose Bierce
Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the… — John Sweeney
Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent… — Mark Krikorian
Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich. — Laila Lalami
Look, I'm an immigrant, so I know what it is like to dream about coming to America and then to get here and be able… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population… — Gary Miller
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the… — Anne Michaels
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget… — Bruce Dern
I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society — Tony Abbott
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part… — Enoch Powell
Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a… — Elton Gallegly
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. — Vine Deloria, Jr.

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