Top 21 Quotes About Immigrant Families
#1. In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#2. So-called generation gaps are especially common among immigrant families; these gaps can produce anxious and unpleasant tensions, and sometimes lead to nasty ruptures or chronic conflicts.
Ralph Nader
#3. Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave.
Rachel Cohn
#4. My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
Phil Jackson
#5. Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.
Jemima Khan
#7. To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.
Colin Quinn
#8. The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless.
Amruta Patil
#9. Jensen Ackles has everything I want. He's in great shape. He's got a full head of hair. He's got a square jawline. He's a big star!
Kurt Fuller
#10. You save me every single day. You are the one thing that makes me happy. You are the only thing I need.
A Meredith Walters
#11. As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.
Pope Francis
#12. So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.
George Eliot
#13. Readers are smart and they know how to read more than just a book; they know how to read their authors.
Suzanne Steele
#14. I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.
Ashwin Sanghi
#15. A smile played around the corners of his mouth. He looked up at me. Bad dog.
Rachel Hawkins
#16. I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.
Wayne Dyer
#17. What is it about me that gets them all crying? It's not the end of the world.
Diane Samuels
#19. I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there.
Alice McDermott
#20. If you weren't held responsible for your mistakes, you weren't making.
M.F. Moonzajer
#21. I wonder if Luke would take a hit of tomato ketchup for me. I might ask him later. Just casually.
Sophie Kinsella
