Quotes About Immigrant Life

#1. My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

Peter Capaldi

#2. 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

#3. I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States. At last, I am a Tibetan in Tibet, a Khampa in Kham, albeit as a tourist in my occupied and tethered country.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#4. 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

#5. What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

Al Lewis

#6. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Barack Obama

#7. In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.

Greg McVicker

#8. I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.

Anousheh Ansari

#9. A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

Jan Koum

#10. One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#11. Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

Lauryn Hill

#12. I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

Robert Plant

#13. Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.

Ken Hom

#14. I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.

Isabel Allende

#15. It's a walking cart," Horace told him. "You get under it, so the spears won't hit you, and go for a walk.

John Flanagan

#16. A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.

Karen Levy

#17. Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.

Anousheh Ansari

#18. Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let 'em know: WEOUTCHEA.

Eddie Huang

#19. Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visable in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker.

Joseph Bernardin

#20. You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

Gus Van Sant

#21. You dole out these stolen little pieces for yourself. You've been doing it for so long that you not only have no idea what you need, you have no idea what anyone else might need, either. No one is all or nothing. Grown-ups don't need someone to be all or nothing.

Mary Ann Rivers

#22. Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so it would appear to me

Merle Shain

#23. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

Dinaw Mengestu

#24. There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

Richard Cecil

#25. I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

Friedrich St. Florian

#26. While this might seem a bit abstract, these numbers are not arbitrary. They are symbols, which represent pieces of paper, which represent pieces of gold. Gold doesn't represent anything; its value is inherent in its glitter.

Colin MacLaughlin

#27. It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Harry Houdini

#28. They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#29. I'm a different immigrant. My life is so lucky compared to so many.

Jose Andres

#30. I realize my life here is much richer than I ever could have imagined. [Why one Canadian immigrant to Italy stays]

Ivanka Di Felice

#31. I led the life of so many other so-called respectable people, - that is, in debauchery. And like the majority, while leading the life of a debauche, I was convinced that I was a man of irreproachable morality.

Leo Tolstoy

#32. Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.

Richard Rohr

#33. I think fame can come and go.

Ashley Tisdale

#34. Wrong always feels right." He answered harshly. "It's why hell is full of lost souls who weren't strong enough.

Juliana Stone

#35. Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Ruby Wax

#36. To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

Herbert Croly

#37. Just because you're famous doesn't mean you're something special and you're above other people.

Avril Lavigne

#38. it's only when we are self-conscious rather than other-conscious that we become so very nervous. When we focus on serving our audience, then the Lord is free to use us.

Bruce H. Wilkinson

#39. It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.

Tad Devine

#40. I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#41. My best discovery of the night? Olivia is hiding a dirty girl beneath that shy, quietly sexy exterior.
And I'm going to set her free.

M. Leighton

#42. If Hillary Clinton wants to win the White House, she's gonna have to convince Americans they can trust her and if you seen the polls, they don't. There's one American who has faith in her, her husband Bill.

Eric Bolling