Country Quote by Iman Vellani

My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

— Amine

My parents were migrants and I experienced first hand the challenges they had to overcome. If they hadn't decided to seek a better life…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets…

— Ted Lieu

I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I…

— Omar Sy

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

— Margaret Mead

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

My parents immigrated to California from Mexico in the 1960s in search of a better life. They arrived from different regions of Mexico with…

— Alex Padilla

My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a…

— Stana Katic

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

— Renee Zellweger

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go…

— Mayim Bialik

I'm the daughter of immigrants and my parents came to this country with nothing in their pockets and not speaking English and all of…

— Michelle Wu

My parents believed in the American dream and the power of education, but didn't have the money to send me to college. I realized…

— Julie Sweet