Immigration Journey Quotes

I'm an immigrant. I'm from the Middle East.

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.

My dad grew up in Nicaragua in his teenage years, then immigrated to the United States.

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

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.

I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.

My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.

My parents were immigrants.

I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.

At Easter the family got together and we were giving one of my uncles a hard time about watching scary films because on the boat leaving Vietnam, when we were attacked by pirates, he wet his pants.

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

I'm a proud Cuban-Mexican immigrant.

Even kids who haven't had firsthand experience with the immigration system, I want them to know how families are affected and what kind of system is in place.

I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year.

My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since my story is similar in a lot of ways.

I'm a first generation immigrant.

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

My family immigrated to the States in 1981, when I was 14.