Mark Consuelos Quotes

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

My parents are both immigrants, and we traveled a lot.

I live in the U.S., but I'm from Brazil.

You can't run from your roots.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

It is important to know where you come from.

My grandfather is from Peshawar; he was born there.

You can't really run from your roots.

My father was Australian.

My grandfather on my dad's side was the first in our family to settle in the U.K. He came from Pakistan on his own in the '60s and worked in a cotton mill in Bolton, earning enough to bring over the rest of his family. My dad, Shah, was only about eight when he came to this country. Like most immigrants, he has a fierce work ethic.

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

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

My family came from Ecuador.

My family's journey is something I am very proud of - in front of me, behind me and every part.

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.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.

I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

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.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.