Immigrant Quotes
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As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.
— Richard Lugar
Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.
— Gary Shteyngart
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
I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
— Samuel P. Huntington
I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
— Camille Paglia
If one has problems with immigrant communities in Europe, that should not be used against Turkey.
— Martti Ahtisaari
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
— David Byrne
I planted him in this country like a flag — Margaret Atwood
For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
— Alice McDermott
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
— Florian Znaniecki
People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.
— Tom Snyder
In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.
— Gloria Steinem
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
— Toni Morrison
There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.
— Mitali Perkins
This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength.
— Gary Shteyngart
When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.
— Antonio Russo
The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.
— E.L. Doctorow
One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
— Zinedine Zidane
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
— Jim Goldberg
Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.
— Stacey Lee
I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.
— Luis Gutierrez
There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.
— Luis Gutierrez
We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.
— Terry Hayes
I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.
— John Gokongwei
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
— Junot Diaz
It's easier to surrender to confinement.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
America was and is the immigrant's dream.
— Don DeLillo
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
The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.
— Ruben Martinez
I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
— Aravind Adiga
Curiously, for instance, the drop in violent crime is most pronounced in cities with high immigrant populations.
— Matt Taibbi
Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.
— Justin Trudeau
Today, I'm going to the grocery store.
— Javier O. Huerta
The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.
— Chris Cannon
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.
— Ruchi Sanghvi
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
The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them.
— Barack Obama
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox ... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
— Rupert Murdoch
I am the son and grandson of immigrants. And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it.
— Marco Rubio
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
— Deborah Kass
As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.
— Himanshu Suri
I realize my life here is much richer than I ever could have imagined. [Why one Canadian immigrant to Italy stays]
— Ivanka Di Felice
To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.
— Colin Quinn
No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
— Marc Veasey
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization ... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
— Josiah Strong
He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.
— H.W. Brands
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
Being an immigrant is not for sissies.
— Helen Russell
Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton
— Ron Chernow
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
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
— George J. Mitchell
If you grow up in an immigrant culture, there are going to be foods you eat that other people just don't get.
— Eddie Huang
That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.
— NoViolet Bulawayo
I was an illegal immigrant.
— Salma Hayek
Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.
— Laila Lalami
Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave.
— Rachel Cohn
My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
— Lisa Papademetriou
American literature has always been immigrant.
— Salman Rushdie
If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
— Christine Pelosi
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
Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.
— Tom Gjelten
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
— Daniel Libeskind
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
— Joseph O'Neill
I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.
— Shyam Selvadurai
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
— Caitlin Flanagan
Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.
— Gianfranco Fini
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
— Edmund White
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
— Chuck Palahniuk
