America Quote by Elif Batuman

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

— Arto Lindsay

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister…

— Julie Salamon

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy…

— Marta Kristen

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

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My…

— Taslima Nasrin

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

— Ben Elton

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne…

— Josh Pais

Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you…

— Ato Essandoh

I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National…

— Joanna Going

In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in…

— Phillipa Soo

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking…

— Daniel Nathans

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor,…

— Pete Seeger