Cesar Millan Quotes

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better life, for opportunity. My mom said that, on the plane ride here, I did not want to speak a word of English - I spoke Tagalog. And then, after the first day of school, I didn't want to speak anything but English.

I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

I came to America when I was 7.

The biggest change of my life was coming to America.

On my 7th birthday, in 1970, I left India and came to America: to this land of incredible opportunity.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

I'm just trying the American dream. To work here in the U.S., you have to commit and be here. For many years, it was back and forth, back and forth, and it didn't work. But I'm always open to working in Spanish.

I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

My family fled the Soviet Union when I was three and a half years old. Upon arriving in New York City in 1979, my father worked multiple jobs to support us, all the while learning English at night.

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me.

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.

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.

When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.