Immigrant Quotes

192 quotes by 166 authors

Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise… — Herbert Croly
The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant… — Mary McAleese
And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying… — Robert Reich
I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not… — Carlos Gavito
The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political. — Tania Bruguera
Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself… — Tania Bruguera
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. — Arthur Rock
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. — Samuel P. Huntington
Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to… — Michael Ondaatje
For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size… — Michael C. Burgess
I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much. — Adrian Beltre
My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge. — Mickey Kaus
I donâ€™t think of myself as a dissident, and Iâ€™m more of an immigrant than an exile, — Ha Jin
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920. — George J. Mitchell
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and… — Ayad Akhtar
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong
The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand. — E L Doctorow
America was and is the immigrant's dream. — Don DeLillo
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes. — Jonathan Raban

Who Wrote These Immigrant Quotes

166 authors contributed a total of 192 Immigrant Quotes, led by these top contributors: