Family Quote by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

— George J. Mitchell

Like Barack Obama's father, Trump's mother was an immigrant. But Trump doesn't often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail.

— Mary Pilon

I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents.

— Winnie Harlow

That's sort of part of the American ethic - is not to worry too much about the past and that it shouldn't define us.…

— Alex Wagner

My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world…

— Tess Gerritsen

My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite…

— Richard Cohen

On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an…

— Alexis Ohanian

The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was…

— Mercedes Ruehl

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have…

— Derwin L. Gray

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

— Adam McKay

I have a really diverse family and have a diverse background in music.

— Kyle

My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.

— Andy Dunn