20th century Quote by Samuel Alito

I'm very proud of the Italian heritage of my great-grandparents, who came here from Italy, and how they helped be a part of the…

— Steve Scalise

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We…

— Celeste Ng

My mom is Italian, and her whole family still lives in Italy. My dad is Australian, and his family lives in Australia, so we…

— Danielle Macdonald

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

— Aida Turturro

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking…

— Daniel Nathans

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents,…

— Christopher Walken

I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.

— Laurie Hernandez

My grandfather created a big family in Italy. He protected the family; he helped them in hospitals and stuff like that.

— Alessandra Mussolini

My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious…

— Jan Schakowsky

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

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact,…

— Sebastian Arcelus

My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a…

— Stana Katic