Do Won Chang Quotes

The first time I came here to the U.S. to start a career, it was in 2002 or 2003. Since then, it's been so, so hard.

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

The caddies are so overlooked out here, and I remember the tough times I had making ends meet when I used to carry the bag.

My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

It is much better for a poor man in this country than it is in Ireland. But if the Irish immigrants knew how hard they would have to work in the first 6 months in this county, few would ever come here.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

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

I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born in Cuba - and we didn't yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.

We've had a humble upbringing. You know, my father came through as a political refugee; my mother comes from a hard-working-farmers family. We've had humble upbringing.

My mom came to America when I was six years old, and I didn't live with them until I was ten. They worked really hard in factories, and my dad as a taxi driver, to be able to afford visas for my sister and I.

My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.

Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes polishing your French by reading 'Le Monde.'

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.

Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish accent.

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.

Tough times were when I didn't have a job and nobody called me.

I worked as a janitor in Canada for nine months. It's during that time when I experienced extreme homesickness.