Good Immigrant Quotes

#1. The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

Karl Abraham

#2. My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

Mickey Kaus

#3. When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.

Muriel Barbery

#4. Floating to shore ... riding a low moon ... on a slow cloud.

Nikki Giovanni

#5. Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

Neel Mukherjee

#6. On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#7. God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

Seneca The Younger

#8. Be exposed. Be open. Be who you want to be. It will never hurt as much as starving your own humanity of oxygen.

Warren Ellis

#9. I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.

Craig Ferguson

#10. I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.

Susan Choi

#11. Wisdom is your earthly advisor;
love is your Heavenly advisor.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. One good thing about being an immigrant in the US, no one cares about my sociopolitical opinion. I exist like a bland wallpaper to all races.

Fidelis O. Mkparu

#13. Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children.

Mark Helprin

#14. I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.

Sergio Troncoso

#15. Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#16. I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby give me a chance to have a better life. I served six years in the U.S. Army Reserve, went to college, have a successful career and have dedicated my life to being a good citizen.

Mike Medavoy

#17. I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

Jacques Pepin

#18. Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

Cybill Shepherd

#19. I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

Freema Agyeman

#20. A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

Robert E.Lee

#21. Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.

Carol Leifer

#22. I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

Britney Spears

#23. My father-in-law tripped on a crack in the pavement and spent the rest of the week politely pretending he had not dislocated his shoulder.

Tina Fey

#24. As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation they had a Day Without Immigrants, is what they call it. Or, as Native Americans call it, the good ol' days.

Jay Leno

#25. The German stamp on Wisconsin endures in the state's commitment to efficient agriculture, hard work, education, culture, and to good citizenship and political freedom - all of which were an integral part of the German immigrant's language.

Richard H. Zeitlin