A Quote by Jack Kirby

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

Jack Kirby

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Jack Kirby
American - Cartoonist
August 28, 1917 - February 6, 1994

Both my parents were immigrants, as were many of their friends, the parents of the children with whom I grew up. Of course I respect and admire immigrants and their undeniable contributions to America, as we all should.

Jan C. Ting

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

Maurice Sendak

My parents were electrical engineers, immigrants from China, and we were always just in a state of struggle, building our life.

Simu Liu

My parents were immigrants.

Mario Cuomo

My parents were immigrants and janitors.

Martin Shkreli

Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.

Richard Thornton

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

Oscar Handlin

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Lamar S. Smith

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

Renee Zellweger

Though my parents were professionals and expected me to go to college, they were immigrants from India with no idea about how the admissions process worked in the United States or the importance of standardized tests.

Asha Rangappa

All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of those immigrants are children who were brought here at a young age through no fault of their own.

Jan Schakowsky

This is a nation of immigrants. We welcome people coming to this country as immigrants. My dad was born in Mexico of American parents; Ann's dad was born in Wales and is a first-generation American. We welcome legal immigrants into this country.

Mitt Romney

American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.

Ruth Reichl

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

Rupi Kaur

Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.