Immigrant Values Quotes

#1. Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Henry Louis Gates

#2. Some things we have to hide from science, waiting for the day when people will be ready to deal with the idea of talking mice or fish with fur. Other things science hides from itself, because no one really wants the night to be dark and filled with monsters. That era has passed.

Seanan McGuire

#3. So this was how it was going to be, was it? This love business, so difficult on the emotions yet so joyous to experience. I liked it and hated it in equal measure.

Harlem Dae

#4. To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.

Colin Quinn

#5. We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

Raul Grijalva

#6. Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

Rhonda Britten

#7. Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

William Tyler

#8. In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.

Libba Bray

#9. Nationwide Manhunt After Explosives

Anonymous

#10. Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Pankaj Mishra

#11. Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.

Jerry Costello

#12. You see," he said sadly, "you have no instincts."
"It was intelligence you were requiring just now," I pointed out.
"The two often go together," said Poirot enigmatically.

Agatha Christie

#13. Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.

J.J. Abrams

#14. Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

Ban Ki-moon

#15. Go for today, don't worry about the future, it'll come eventually

Greyson Chance

#16. Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

Kirk Hammett

#17. 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