Always Quote by Mark Leibovich

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

— Camila Morrone

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family…

— Diana Taurasi

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

— Fred Armisen

My father's immigrant story is a big part of who I am.

— Tom Suozzi

Obviously there are many, many ways of being an outsider, but having immigrant parents is one of them. For one thing, it makes you…

— Elif Batuman

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish…

— Anonymous

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something…

— Junot Diaz

I am very much the daughter of immigrants. It's both a point of pride and an essential part of characterizing my upbringing. We spoke…

— Diana Taurasi

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

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience…

— Dinaw Mengestu

When you're an immigrant family, the upbringing, the mentality and the opportunities are all different.

— Kelvin Gastelum

My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a…

— Fred Armisen