A Quote by Rick Smolan

A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.

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Apartment Family Generations Hold Immigrant Might Three Three Generations Tiny

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Rick Smolan
American - Photographer
Born: November 5, 1949

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

Alice McDermott

North Korea publicly denounced me as an enemy of my people and punished all my relatives. They have this guilty by association policy and they go after three generations of your family or up to eight generations of your family.

Park Yeon-mi

I was living with my mom in a tiny apartment in Chula Vista, near Third and H Street behind the 7-Eleven. It was crazy to be on the phone with Stevie Wonder. I felt like a meteor hit our apartment!

Andra Day

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

Eric Jerome Dickey

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

Elise M. Boulding

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

Chath Piersath

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

Rupert Everett

I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in Washington Heights with three other actors in this tiny apartment and busting my butt to get to the subway, walking to, like, five auditions in a day.

Anna Camp

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

Mira Nair

My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family.

Cesar Milstein

My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.

Stana Katic

I might go to some tiny little town in Idaho with, like, three people living there.

Robert Pattinson

I have a Baldwin in my L.A. apartment, a Steinway in my New York apartment, and a Kawai plexiglass grand piano in storage for shows. I still play for two or three hours every day.

Neil Sedaka

My family is from Jamaica, it's why I don't do 'Who Do You Think You Are' because within two or three generations is slavery, and I'd be there two minutes in crying, they're all slaves! So I don't want to do 'Who Do You Think You Are.' It's in my family.

Lenny Henry

Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.

Swami Vivekananda

My mother was a doctor, and I grew up with her in a little apartment belonging to my grandmother, because the Soviet Union never saw fit to let our family have its own apartment.

Kersti Kaljulaid

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