Came Quote by J. B. Pritzker

My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money…

— Laura Moser

I come from a refugee family.

— Ralf Rangnick

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants…

— Alexis Denisof

All I say is, let's pray for Ukraine... and they need the prayers. I know that it wasn't easy for my grandfather's family, and…

— George Santos

I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.

— Noma Dumezweni

My grandfather was born in Kyiv and left in the late 20s and migrated to Belgium where he met my grandmother and then started…

— George Santos

I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I was three years old, so I actually don't remember much of the refugee process.

— Milana Vayntrub

My father's father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States. So was my stepmother,…

— Antony Blinken

My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.

— Amala Akkineni

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

— Milana Vayntrub

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

— Bob Schaffer