Quotes About Immigrant

I see the Conservative party becoming more and more attractive to people from all different backgrounds, particularly because so many of the immigrant communities are people who work hard and get on in life... so I think they are naturally Conservative.

I was one of the only children having an immigrant father in my elementary school.

My mother is basically an immigrant because she came from Tonga.

There are few countries in the world where you can go in one generation from immigrant to parliamentarian.

Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

I'm child of immigrants.

Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.

Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up for immigrants?'

I'm the child of immigrants.

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'

Or like the way our mother would never get free of her first-generation immigrant mentality. Once in flight she was always in flight, glancing uneasily around before pushing on to another vista that promised better prospects. Maybe it kept her feeling safe. She couldn't have known that it would leave Sam and me feeling the opposite--permanently unsettled, unable to know what could be called home.

Once demonized, the immigrant can be dehumanized. Dehumanization commodifies the immigrants. The immigrant-as-commodity is not precious. Rather, the immigrants-as-commodities are likened to "hazardous waste dumps.

In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

I was always a wrestling fan, and being an Arab kid who grew up in Canada, there was no representation for people like me.

When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

Chinese immigrant: Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.

The immigrant is the Everyman of the twentieth century.

When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.

Chinese restaurants were the only restaurants we went to when we "ate out.

New York est la ville où l'on se sent chez soi quand on est de nulle part.