#immigrant

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #immigrant




It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.


Andrea Jung


#anything #being #came #china #company

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.


Ruby Wax


#down #forced #freedom #gave #hide

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.


Arlen Specter


#action #determined #europe #even #father

America was and is the immigrant's dream.


Don DeLillo


#dream #immigrant

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


#back #followed #forget #how #hundred

You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.


Jan Brewer


#administration #amnesty #based #borders #bush

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.


Herbert Croly


#america #american #american life #been #consisted

Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.


J. D. Hayworth


#illegal #immigrants #immigration #laws #legal

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.


Ernest Istook


#american #american society #ballots #benefits #come