Family Quote by Leana S. Wen

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin…

— Steven Chu

My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.

— Nathan Chen

Being Chinese immigrants in the United States, it was important for my parents to maintain ties that went back a long time. They led…

— Chien Chung Pei

My parents were supportive. But they were scared. We were undocumented. We came to the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed. They applied…

— Carlo Alban

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant…

— Isabel Allende

My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious…

— Jan Schakowsky

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 parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

— Amine

My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was…

— Ang Lee

Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets…

— Ted Lieu

On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an…

— Alexis Ohanian

I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.

— Noma Dumezweni