Designer Quote by Fran Lebowitz

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

— James Gray

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New…

— James Gray

We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions…

— Walter Weyl

It's amazing when you find a photo of your grandparents when they were young because it's black and white and the care that they…

— Feist

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna…

— Maurice Sendak

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at…

— Tennessee Williams

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my…

— James Altucher

Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents'…

— Tamlyn Tomita

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

— Uma Thurman

My parents are both immigrants, and we traveled a lot.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I know very little about my great grandparents, who came through Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, settled in Baltimore, and spoke only…

— Claire Saffitz