Immigrant Quotes

192 quotes by 164 authors

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the… — Joseph O'Neill
I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his… — Dennis Lehane
I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those… — Jacques Pepin
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry. — Jessie Ware
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. — Peter Jennings
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how… — Ted Cruz
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself. — Caitlin Flanagan
The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and… — Tom Tancredo
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on… — Raul Grijalva
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. — Deborah Kass
People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world.… — Grover Norquist
It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined… — Gloria Estefan
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. — Jennifer Gilmore
A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his… — Mary Antin
The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement. — Chris Cannon
Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but… — Jared Bernstein
My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders… — William Shatner
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more. — Elia Kazan
I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents… — Amy Chua
Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to be free. This… — George H. W. Bush

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