Sofia Vergara Quotes

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

I can't tell you how many times I get into a taxicab in New York or Los Angeles, and I'm talking to somebody who is a recent immigrant who was a doctor or lawyer or engineer or professor in the country they just came from. They're starting over again in life, and I think the majority of people out there can relate to that.

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

The biggest change of my life was coming to America.

Even coming from Ghana to the United States, my mom and dad did so much to provide a better life for their kids. It was such a huge sacrifice; leaving your entire family - and we have a huge family - leaving them to come to America and have a better life for their kids.

On my 7th birthday, in 1970, I left India and came to America: to this land of incredible opportunity.

Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy.

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

My dad, he believed in me. My first year was hard for me. I came to the States with myself, and no one came with me.

When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me.

Coming from the Philippines to the U.S. did shape me in that it gave me perseverance.

Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities.

It is not easy to arrive in a different country and adapt quickly, but I think I'm getting there, and I'm proud of that.

I'm from the Philippines and I moved to this country when I was 16.

I came to America when I was 7.

I wanted to do comedy because I left Malaysia and went to America. I got bitten by the Western, idealist, opinionated, democracy bug.

I'm Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.

I was the first of my siblings born here in the United States.

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.