Birth Quote by Ron Chernow

“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow…

— Tim O'Brien

“This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength.”

— Gary Shteyngart

“As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person…

— Pat Conroy

“Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would…

— Jade Chang

“In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country…

— Simon Anholt

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long…

— Carson McCullers

“The United States, the Spanish-American writer George Santayana wrote, ‘has always thought itself in an eminent sense the land of freedom, even when it…

— Pankaj Mishra

“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run…

— Salman Rushdie

“Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because…

— James Hamilton-Paterson

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long…

— Carson McCullers

“Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and…

— Denis Johnson