#grant

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well! ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#come #done #economic #gender #golden

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#fact #granted #i #kind #olympic

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#common sense #distinctions #fastidious #first #found

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes. ↗

— Percy Ross

#genies #grant #waiting #wishes #world

You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys. ↗

— Michael Grant

#humor #lana #michael-grant #plague #sanjit

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#centers #close #community #every #health

The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa. ↗

— Otto Schily

#attacks #committed #community #immigrants #local

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#adopted #am #another #child #comes

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#before #begin #experiments #granted #infinitely