Dad Quote by Deb Haaland

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

— Irwin Thomas

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died -…

— George J. Mitchell

My family immigrated to the States in 1981, when I was 14.

— Masha Gessen

I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.

— Ron Stallworth

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

— Nancy Grace

My mother's family migrated from Mexico to Colorado and then to the Salinas Valley of California. My father was based there, they met at…

— Ron Rivera

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an…

— David Lee

“My mother’s side came to the United States from Germany and Switzerland in the 1770s. In 1785 one of my descendants went west to…

— Ora-Jay Eash

I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.

— Frances McDormand

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

— Dennis Hopper

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We…

— Celeste Ng