Abolitionist Quote by Pete Seeger

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never…

— Sonia Rykiel

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an…

— David Lee

My family, especially the ones that came to America, second generation, they're predominantly lawyers, doctors, accountants... they went to college basically, graduated, masters programs…

— Beneil Dariush

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the…

— Pete Seeger

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids…

— Joel Kinnaman

I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

— Charles Kimbrough

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an…

— Leonard Nimoy

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

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And…

— David Bowie

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded…

— Arlen Specter

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't…

— Megyn Kelly