Children Quote by Fannie Flagg

“many of us, as immigrants—or our parents or our grandparents—had chosen to leave our pasts behind just as the Goldens were now choosing, encouraging…

— Salman Rushdie

“It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to…

— Andrew Dalby

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author.…

— Delmore Schwartz

“There are significant differences among children who are becoming fluent in English that will influence how they learn English. These include the language spoken…

— Terry Marselle

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

— E. L. Doctorow

“the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who’ve just arrived and the ones who have…

— Paul Scott

“It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

The open-borders Right regularly insists that immigrants and their children are assimilating at a brisk clip. It would be nice to see them advocating…

— Heather Mac Donald

“we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.”

— Péter Nádas

“As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person…

— Pat Conroy

“Foreigners are like you and me, they know what children need. All women anywhere have maternal instincs, we're all like the Guan Yin inside.”

— Xin Ran