Passenger Quotes

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being French, it's like an East-West meeting in my house.

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

I'm Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She's a whitey.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

My husband is actually Italian-American, and he thought I was Italian when he first met me.

I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.

When I look into the future and where I'd like to live, I'll say Germany because I grew up there and like the discipline the people have. But my background is from Zonguldak in Turkey. I'm there a lot.

Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while still respecting the European backgrounds of my relatives.

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

I was born in London. In a lot of ways I'm English, but I have this Iranianness, this culture instilled by my parents, by my family.

My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.

My mother is a German who was brought up in the U.K. So, there is so much cross-cultural exposure I had as a child. But Mumbai is my city.

There's so many Chinese or Asian Americans that were either born in another country like I was and raised in America or born in America and raised in America. They're normal Americans, and they just happen to have a different heritage.

I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk.

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

I am American. If you drop me in Seoul, I don't think I'm going to thrive there.

'Entropy' will be a kaleidoscope of thought processes and my identity as an Indian who grew up in California.