Ellis island Quote by Gavin DeGraw

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

— Gabriel Byrne

My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.

— Katherine Ryan

I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to…

— Anne Hathaway

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

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

— Mitch Kapor

I do a lot of explaining of where I'm from to Americans.

— Colter Wall

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

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

— Jodie Foster

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am.…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.

— Eugene Simon

“As one observer noted, “In traveling across America, the Scots-Irish have consistently blown my mind as far and away the most persistent and unchanging…

— J.D. Vance

I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.

— Pierce Brosnan