A Quote by Masha Gessen

My family immigrated to the States in 1981, when I was 14.

Masha Gessen

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Masha Gessen
Russian - Journalist
Born: January 13, 1967

My mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany before the family immigrated to western Canada. They were able to get visas thanks to my grandfather's older sister, who had immigrated between the wars.

Chrystia Freeland

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.

Clara Shih

I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

Karan Mahajan

My dad grew up in Nicaragua in his teenage years, then immigrated to the United States.

Rashida Tlaib

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Do Won Chang

My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

Chang-Rae Lee

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

Henry Paulson

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

Mia Love

I came to the United States in 1981 as a student.When I left, I was totally the most beloved little flower in China and so it was an outrage basically.

Amanda Schull

In 1881, my dad's grandparents, who were Norwegian farmers, immigrated to the United States - the same year my great grandfather from Laguna Pueblo was put on a train to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.

Deb Haaland

Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn’t be able to do what I do today if they didn’t come to America. Everybody has an immigration story.

Naya Rivera

I wanted to build a family very strongly because I lost my family when I was 15, 14, and I missed the family unit very much.

Frank Lowy

Since June of 1981, between school and the national team, I haven't had much time to spend with myself or my family.

Karch Kiraly

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

John Negroponte

"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

John Waters

My parents, Santos and Lupe Padilla, immigrated separately from Mexico and met in Los Angeles in the late 1960s. It was love at first sight and the young couple decided to get married, apply for green cards, and start a family.

Alex Padilla

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