Immigrants Quote by Konnie Huq

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

My family was one of the few South Asian families in my community in Illinois. Growing up in the '80s, I remember going to…

— Reshma Saujani

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

— Phillip Lim

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

— George Michael

I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

— Vidya Balan

My parents were South Korean immigrants who came to America in the early 80s for the hope of a better life for their children.

— Jonny Kim

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

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids…

— Joel Kinnaman

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We…

— Celeste Ng

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 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