Immigrant Contribution Quotes & Sayings

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody. — Marvin Hamlisch

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read. — Eboo Patel

In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. — E.L. Konigsburg

People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko 's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence. — Dmitri Shostakovich

I'm grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay. — Lois Lowry

Do not believe that you alone can be right.
The man who thinks that,
The man who maintains that only he has the power
To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul
A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty. — Sophocles

Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more. — Raheel Farooq

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination. — Christina Milian

...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous. — Hunter S. Thompson

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase? — Steven Wright

Since the peace treaties
of 1919 and 1920, the refugees and
the stateless have attached themselves
like a curse to all the newly
established states on earth which
were created in the image of the
nation-state. — Hannah Arendt

Ever minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs -Cassia, 'Matched — Ally Condie

Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

It's what you do with the want that matters. — Jim Butcher

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. — William Shakespeare