Immigrant Quotes

192 quotes by 164 authors

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up. — Zinedine Zidane
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and… — Pete Seeger
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in… — Isabel Allende
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family. — Camille Paglia
I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you… — Marcus Samuelsson
Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable… — Jemima Khan
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide… — Grover Norquist
Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies… — Vivek Wadhwa
A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences… — Jan Koum
I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby give me a… — Mike Medavoy
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me. — Ruchi Sanghvi
I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is… — Friedrich St. Florian
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of… — Dinaw Mengestu
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality… — Gad Elmaleh
Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted to tackle this… — Johan Cruyff
If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which… — Jan C. Ting
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population. — Jan C. Ting
Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration. — Jan C. Ting
I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate… — Susan Choi
Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one. — Jorge Ramos

Who Wrote These Immigrant Quotes

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