Melanie Fiona Quotes

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

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

My parents were immigrants.

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'

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.

I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

We can't restore our civilization with someome else's babies.

The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.

I am a first generation American, and my family is from Bulgaria.

I'm child of immigrants.

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria.

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.

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

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

I am not an African. I am an American.

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.