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Immigrant Quotes

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

Alice McDermott

Family People Immigrant First Who

A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.

Family Three Immigrant Apartment

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.

Children Dream Immigrants Immigrant

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

Life Mother Woman Me Mom Immigrant

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

Samuel P. Huntington

People American Immigrant Half Only

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

Daniel Libeskind

Me New Immigrant Project Touched

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Immigrant Old Here I Came Months

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

January Immigrants Immigrant Size

I'm still the community college kid with immigrant parents.

Community Parents College Immigrant

'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with 'Little House' because they were wanderers, and there was something about being an immigrant.

Early House Street Immigrant Always

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

I Am Society Australia Immigrant Am

I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

People Think Immigrant Outsider Odd

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

Christine Pelosi

Fight Equality Believe Say Immigrant

I became an immigrant, civil and human rights advocate, then the first South Asian elected to the Washington State Legislature and the only woman of color in the Washington State Senate, and then was elected in 2016 to the United States Congress.

Pramila Jayapal

Woman Color Washington Immigrant

Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.

Wisdom Easy Immigrant Borders Need

In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.

Women Group Way Immigrant Women Are

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

Alain de Botton

Family Sometimes Immigrant Different

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

City Rome London Immigrant Always

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.

Childhood Lost Grandfather Immigrant

Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes polishing your French by reading 'Le Monde.'

Pamela Druckerman

Mother Reading You Poor Immigrant

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

Success Me Reality Name Immigrant

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

History Immigrant Single Needs Part

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

People Immigrant Watching Learned

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

Experience Country Immigrant Rough

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