America Quote by Jascha Heifetz

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

— George Gamow

In Russia, you really learn about a person.

— Jan Koum

“be realized when, in 1937, I introduced him in New York City, to Colonel Boris Bykov. At St. Matthews Court, Collins lived alone. He…

— Whittaker Chambers

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left…

— Simon Kuznets

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the…

— Robert Fogel

Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking cobbler whose…

— Keith Gessen

When I was 18 and was studying in university, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia.

— Ksenia Sobchak

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

— Richard Brautigan

I was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., before my father got an appointment at a university in Italy and we moved to Italy. I spend…

— Pavel Durov

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people…

— Maria Sharapova

I'm so happy to be a part of Russian MMA history by headlining the first UFC event in Russia.

— Aleksei Oleinik

“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his…

— Paullina Simons