Boston Quote by Michael Ondaatje

Our friends, neighbors, and their families have been forced to live in the shadows out of fear of being torn from their families and…

— Marc Veasey

One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans…

— Richard Mercer Dorson

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to…

— Chang-Rae Lee

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

“We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the…

— Libba Bray

In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they…

— Kathryn Lasky

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

— Tao Lin

The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died -…

— George J. Mitchell

My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they experienced.

— Naveen Andrews

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

— Milana Vayntrub

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's…

— Naomi Shihab Nye