Building Quote by Simu Liu

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a…

— Phillip Lim

My parents were engineers. In the 1970s, they came to the United States as refugees from Uganda. Seeing everything this country did for my…

— Reshma Saujani

My parents immigrated to California from Mexico in the 1960s in search of a better life. They arrived from different regions of Mexico with…

— Alex Padilla

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

— Jack Kirby

My parents were migrants and I experienced first hand the challenges they had to overcome. If they hadn't decided to seek a better life…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.

— Yasmine Hamdan

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 father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their…

— Nathan Chen

My parents were hardworking and still are. Everything I do is for them and the family.

— Frances Tiafoe

My dad was an electrical engineer.

— John Cooper Clarke

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar