Familiar Quote by Elizabeth Marvel

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

— Norman Braman

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

— Vladimir Putin

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant…

— Isabel Allende

I'm a triple citizen of the United States, in Switzerland and Tunisia. And actually beyond just my immediate family, all of my family is…

— Suleika Jaouad

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

— Ulysses S. Grant

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving…

— Dianne Feinstein

My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.

— Lewis Hamilton

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

— Walter Salles

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

— Ring Lardner

My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get…

— Bobby Lashley

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

— Katy Perry

Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not…

— Alice Sebold