American Quote by Nicholas Kristof

My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruled…

— Marjorie Liu

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 father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early…

— Tess Gerritsen

My parents and I entered the U.S. legally, but when it was time for our visa extension, we were turned down. Returning to China…

— Leana S. Wen

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

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my…

— James Altucher

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep…

— Iris Chang

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

— Norman Braman

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

— George J. Mitchell

My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was…

— Diane Guerrero

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them…

— Joe Eszterhas

My father's father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States. So was my stepmother,…

— Antony Blinken