Immigrated From Quotes

#1. My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not.

Arlo Guthrie

#2. Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#3. My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

Nadia Giosia

#4. In Italy, especially in '70s and '80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Puglia, the heel of Italy. But what made me feel different was society, not my family.

Riccardo Tisci

#5. Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn't be able to do what I do today if they didn't come to America. Everybody has an immigration story.

Naya Rivera

#6. I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.

Erika Christensen

#7. My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

Chang-rae Lee

#8. Robbing humans of their faces and individuality is no less a form of evil than diminishing their dignity or looking for threats primarily among those who have immigrated or harbour different religious beliefs.

Zygmunt Bauman

#9. My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Bob Schaffer

#10. The fact that my parents got over to Canada is kind of amazing in and of itself. Had they not immigrated when I was a child, I probably would have never been doing what I'm doing. So, thanks, Canada!

Daria Werbowy

#11. I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful.

John Edwards

#12. Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

Hank Johnson

#13. Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Natalie Goldberg

#14. I thought you weren't afraid." "I never am
but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

Aldo Leopold

#16. I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

Mindy Kaling

#17. I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.

Arthur Lewis

#18. I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips ... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#19. Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being - that of ecstasy; and out of ecstasy, whatever is created has also some flavor of it.

Rajneesh

#20. Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

Harold S. Kushner

#21. What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [ Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

Kate DiCamillo

#22. I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Ayelet Waldman

#23. Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.

Anne Frank

#24. You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?

Taylor Nadeau

#25. Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Lynne Cheney

#26. My mother's parents, Bernard and Rivka Levine, were from Russia and also immigrated to New York City. My mother, Rose, was the elder of their two daughters. My maternal grandmother's family included several scholars and professionals.

Robert Lefkowitz

#27. Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.

Rory Bremner

#28. When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Do Won Chang

#29. Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

Heikki Kovalainen

#30. There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

Linda Ronstadt

#31. If you are going to say a thing the substance of which is a big pill for your readers to swallow, there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#32. My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

Mia Love

#33. For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

Henry Paulson

#34. Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.

Lisa Kleypas