Came Quote by Francisco Costa

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but…

— Francisco Costa

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

— Kola Boof

My parents were the only people to go to South Africa from Australia in a single engine plane... the two of them, no radio...…

— Maye Musk

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

— Lawrence Welk

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

— Kola Boof

My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer…

— George Pataki

She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother. She was…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

— Louis Zamperini

People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.

— George W. Bush

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How…

— Penelope Cruz

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

— Anna Pavlova

“I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue.”

— Barbara Kingsolver