I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you’re going to have to work twice as hard. – Lin-Manuel Miranda
It’s true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn’t a single novel that doesn’t travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally. – Oscar Hijuelos
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. – Samuel P. Huntington
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing. – Rose Schneiderman
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me. – Ruchi Sanghvi
I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others’ stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large. – Philip Schultz
It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can’t pay an American to pick blueberries. – Trey Gowdy
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population. – Timothy Garton Ash
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. – Theodore Roosevelt
As with the Pacific Gateway, Canadians were similarly hoodwinked by the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP). – Terry Glavin
I haven’t written about an immigrant experience because I haven’t experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. – Tao Lin