#grant

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #family

I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #family

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#blessings #count #day #every #every day

God knew our lives would be really bad sometimes. Like maybe we'd be turned into a monster and then our best friend would get killed. So he made up this story about hell, so we could always say, 'Well it could be worse. It could be hell.' And then we'd keep going. ↗

— Michael Grant

#gone #heaven #hell #ichael-grant #life

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#english #english language #groups #higher #hispanics

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#background #both #comes #explosive #father

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#immigrants #laws #nation

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#because #blessing #child #easily #enormous

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#cuba #dad #english #find #generation

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bad #bad idea #everyday #granted #idea