Accents Quote by Luc Sante

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit…

— Alexander Dreymon

You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book,…

— Junot Diaz

When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new…

— Anonymous

When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and…

— Victor Moses

I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just…

— Cristian Machado

Growing up around people with the same culture as me made me a lot tougher.

— Cher Lloyd

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that others have…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

— Mindy Kaling

Growing up biracial and speaking four languages - French, Chinese, Portuguese, and English - gave me a different lens. I was always very acutely…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

— Frances Mayes

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