Citizenship Quote by Jabari Parker

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

— George J. Mitchell

My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and…

— Julianne Moore

My mother is an American.

— Robert J. Sawyer

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my…

— James Altucher

My father earned his citizenship by serving in the Army during World War II. He devoted his life to caring for our nations veterans…

— Tom Perez

My mom came to America when I was six years old, and I didn't live with them until I was ten. They worked really…

— Dania Ramirez

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving…

— Dianne Feinstein

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he…

— Marco Rubio

I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who…

— Isabel Wilkerson

My father and mother brought me to this country to escape communism and to provide me with the security, opportunity and pride that American…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

My dad was undocumented for a period of time, my mom was also undocumented for a period of time.

— Nico Santos

It took me 17 years to become a U.S. citizen.

— Pramila Jayapal