Amazing Quote by Jamie Chung

My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled to Green…

— Tony Shalhoub

My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything…

— Samuel Alito

My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on the fact…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When I was 13 I made a youth national team and we went on a trip to Europe. It was the first time that…

— Jesse Marsch

I grew up with a single mum, an immigrant mum who couldn't speak the language, no money, three kids on her back, coming from…

— Ncuti Gatwa

When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up…

— Viggo Mortensen

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

— Jose Feliciano

My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get…

— Bobby Lashley

Certain stories, like my mom leaving when I was 15-years-old to go back to China because she didn't quite assimilate like we did, that…

— Jimmy O. Yang

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language…

— Elif Safak

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

— Rostam Batmanglij

I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a…

— Zoe Kazan