Age Quote by Konnie Huq

I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some…

— Amy Chua

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna…

— Maurice Sendak

My parents were Hungarian immigrants; my father was a tailor and we lived in the back of a tailor store. And that was my…

— Tony Curtis

When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant…

— Su-chin Pak

Definitely that was a big part of my childhood: wanting to fit. As an immigrant, you talk funny, you look funny, you smell funny.…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I'm the daughter of immigrants and my parents came to this country with nothing in their pockets and not speaking English and all of…

— Michelle Wu

As the proud son of immigrants from Mexico, I watched my parents work resiliently hard for 40 years, my father as a cook and…

— Alex Padilla

My parents were migrants and I experienced first hand the challenges they had to overcome. If they hadn't decided to seek a better life…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

My parents raised me that way: to appreciate what I have and pass it along to others.

— Katrina Adams

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