Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years.

I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

Even before I was in New York, I couldn't even count how many places I lived in L.A. Definitely over 10.

My family immigrated to the States in 1981, when I was 14.

We didn't have shoes until we came over to America.

Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition.

My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.

I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

My father came here from Mexico.

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

We moved around a lot when I was kid. I'd lived in three continents before I was 12.

My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

If people have the choice of where they settle in Europe, then we cannot be surprised that they choose to come over here in search of a better life.

My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper.

I was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., before my father got an appointment at a university in Italy and we moved to Italy. I spend a few years there before my family returned to Russia.

Michigan was the place that people used to move to from all around the world.