Harold Evans Quotes

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I have a very good impression of the United States, and I am very excited to fight here.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

To me, you know, from my childhood I always had a fascination for United States.

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in return. After my father served proudly in the U.S. Army, they settled in Buffalo, N.Y., and were able to live the American Dream.

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.

We all should be proud of the United States. For those of us that came from the Dominican, we've been able to come here, work, make money and become somebody in our lives. We've gotten a huge opportunity from the U.S.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English at the beginning. I am very thankful for this country and the opportunity music has given me... My three kids were born here in Miami; they speak Spanish at home, but English with all their friends.

I see with joy the Irish emigrants landing at Boston, at New York, and say to myself, There they go—to school.

As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.'

My parents didn't feel that they had any choice but to leave the Dominican Republic. They did, however, choose to become Americans, and they lived American values every day.

I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

I know what it feels like to be a young family looking for opportunity in the United States.

When I was coming to this country, I heard about its promises.

I lived in America. I love America.

Millions of people have come to the United States in pursuit of liberty and a better way of life. They contribute to this tremendous melting pot and embrace the opportunities which are presented for them and their families.

We had a lot of help when we got to America.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.