John Gokongwei Quotes

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

I was born in Poland, and then I was six years in France. I returned to Poland, and then, at the age of eight and a half, we came to Germany.

I was born in Taiwan and came to the United States when I was 2.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

I was born in Boston, and when I was two and a half, my parents moved to Minneapolis. And then from there, when I was five, we moved back to Portugal. But before that, a lot of family members had come to visit us, and we had been back to Portugal many times because my whole family lived there.

My parents left Iran in 1979 and moved to France and then moved to the U.S. My brother was born in France and I was born in New York, and then we moved to D.C.

Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but grew up in Eastern Europe, and became a woman in London.

I feel like I can represent both countries, in a way, because I have a Korea face, but I was born and raised in the States.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

I was a redhead when I first came to America.

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.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.