Sajid Javid Quotes

I'm Cuban. My parents are immigrants.

I'm child of immigrants.

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

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

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

We say this is a land of immigrants, and we forget that this was a land that belonged to people. And those of us who are new immigrants and those of us who come from generations of immigrants have to realize we are not that much different from one another.

My parents were immigrants.

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Too many people are willing to turn their backs on our immigrant past.

Our country is a country where immigration is history and it is a country where immigration is destiny.

I can understand the value of the immigrant experience and that we have become the nation that we are because people like my grandmother were able to make a life in this country.

Our forefathers increased and decreased the influx of peoples because America was building a melting pot and because certain ethnicities often brought with them certain securities and degrees of productivity.

I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

A lot of people forget that Americans are immigrants. People are forgetting that, to where people have this attitude, 'We're Americans, go back to your country. Go back. This is a free country.' I always heard that growing up. I always heard that.

My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.

I'm the granddaughter of immigrants.

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

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

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

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.