Airmen Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

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

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

When my mom was pregnant with me, my parents moved from France to America.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family…

— Diana Taurasi

Both my parents came into the United States from Mexico.

— Cain Velasquez

When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

— Ann-Margret

My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He…

— Kehinde Wiley

My mother's family migrated from Mexico to Colorado and then to the Salinas Valley of California. My father was based there, they met at…

— Ron Rivera

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents,…

— Christopher Walken

My parents came here from Colombia during a time of great instability there. Escaping a dire economic situation at home, they moved to New…

— Diane Guerrero

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died -…

— George J. Mitchell

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We…

— Celeste Ng

My parents came from the south. So their ancestors were actually slaves in this country.

— Isaac Wright Jr