Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

All my friends had grandparents who had accents. I thought all grandparents were supposed to have accents. My friends were all second-generation, as I was.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

My mother came from Japan, and I really didn't understand her often. Now that I'm older, I do.

The problems in the Russian novel are quite similar to the problems of Turkish nationalism and Turkish culture, which was something that I grew up thinking didn't affect me very much because my parents didn't really talk about it.

My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish because they wanted me to be able to communicate with my elders when I went to Santo Domingo or when my family came to visit from Cuba.

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

I come from a family of four brothers, so I like sports.

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

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

I still speak to my parents only in German, and I have endless family over there.

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry.

I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.