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Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents. -- Gene Luen Yang
Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. -- Ambrose Bierce
People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side. -- Tom Snyder
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control. -- Irwin Redlener
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
Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language -- Marc Prensky
There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family. -- James Gray
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then. -- Bruce Dern
I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on. -- Saul Rubinek
As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation they had a Day Without Immigrants, is what they call it. Or, as Native Americans call it, the good ol' days. -- Jay Leno
Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom. -- Edward Kennedy
Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America! -- Stephen Sondheim
I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers. -- Eric Schlosser
American literature has always been immigrant. -- Salman Rushdie
Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one. -- Jorge Ramos
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. -- Theodore Roosevelt
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. -- Rand Paul
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
I think of Superman as the ultimate vanilla hero. He's this perfect refugee, this perfect immigrant from another planet who embodies the American dream. -- Antje Traue
Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'. -- Jeb Bush
I'm very inspired by him-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
I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant. -- Marcus Samuelsson
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany. -- Pete Seeger
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story. -- Eugene Jarecki
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. -- Gloria Estefan
China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens. -- Amy Chua
Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on. -- Elton Gallegly
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech. -- Louis D. Brandeis
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. -- Daniel Libeskind
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
I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours. -- Amy Chua
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble. -- David Mamet
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself, and in spite of her own struggles with alcohol. She was an immigrant who had never finished school. But she was also a Renaissance woman who read voraciously. She spoke several languages. -- Richard Carmona
My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico. -- Vicente Fox
If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible. -- Jenni Rivera
My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief. -- John Oliver
I was an illegal immigrant. -- Salma Hayek
America was and is the immigrant's dream. -- Don DeLillo
Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing. -- Gary Shteyngart
Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration. -- Marco Rubio
In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. -- Gloria Steinem
I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever. -- Junot Diaz
I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat. -- Andrew Lam
I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community. -- Luis Gutierrez
A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family. -- Rick Smolan
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. -- Peter Jennings
Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker. -- Jeb Bush
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. -- Vine Deloria Jr.
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. -- Arthur Rock
I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much. -- Adrian Beltre
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. -- Conor Oberst
I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society -- Tony Abbott
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. -- Samuel P. Huntington
The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting. -- Junot Diaz
The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political. -- Tania Bruguera
I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work. -- Pamela Anderson
The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue. -- Ruben Martinez
He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning. -- H.W. Brands
My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much. -- John Green
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British. -- Maajid Nawaz
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. -- Jennifer Gilmore
When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate. -- Ted Cruz
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years. -- George Michael
If one has problems with immigrant communities in Europe, that should not be used against Turkey. -- Martti Ahtisaari
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me. -- Ruchi Sanghvi
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me, -- Ruchi Sanghvi
Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic. -- Marco Rubio
The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them. -- Barack Obama
I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile, -- Ha Jin
Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons. -- Gianfranco Fini
For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile. -- Alice McDermott
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it. -- Junot Diaz
Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration. -- Jan C. Ting
I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience. -- Andrew Lam
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line. -- Rupert Murdoch
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. -- Josiah Strong
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. -- Florian Znaniecki
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. -- Josiah Strong
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920. -- George J. Mitchell
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. -- Tao Lin
No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America. -- Marc Veasey
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself. -- Caitlin Flanagan
The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement. -- Chris Cannon
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. -- David Byrne
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities. -- Jim Goldberg
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
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
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
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
Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants. -- Tom Gjelten
Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk. -- Justin Trudeau
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. -- Deborah Kass
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 a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity. -- Richard Lugar
In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society. -- Noam Chomsky
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
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry. -- Jessie Ware
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes. -- Jonathan Raban
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
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
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more. -- Elia Kazan
If he [Donald Trump] builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he`ll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it. -- Marco Rubio
I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do . -- Alan Sugar
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
Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Under my plan the undocumented or as you would say illegal immigrant wouldn't be in the USA. They only come in the country legally. -- Donald Trump
The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else. -- Ted Cruz
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
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
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
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America. -- Jan Schakowsky
The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics. -- Luis Gutierrez
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
We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution. -- Roger Mahony
Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love. -- Geraldine Ferraro
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population. -- Jan C. Ting
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in. -- Anzia Yezierska

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