Immigrant Parents Quotes:

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

- John Green

topic: Parent, Stomach, Immigrant Parents

First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices of people whom they trusted and respected.

- Sheena Iyengar

topic: Children, Motivation, Inspiration, Immigrant Parents

I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.

- Amy Chua

topic: Children, Self Esteem, Psych, Immigrant Parents

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

- Amy Chua

topic: Daughter, Mother, Husband, Two Daughters, Immigrant Parents

I think I was always informally thinking about choice from when I was a very young child because I was born to Sikh immigrant parents, so I was constantly going back and forth between a Sikh household and an American outside world, so I was going back and forth between a very traditional Sikh home in which you had to follow the Five K's.

- Sheena Iyengar

source: Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

topic: Children, Home, Thinking, Immigrant Parents

I was raised to give back. I was born to immigrant parents and was fortunate to become successful at an early age. I've always felt a strong sense of national service to my country, and I may have been able to provide leadership in the political arena. I don't regret the decision not to enter politics, I just wonder sometimes if I could have changed anything.

- Lee Iacocca

source: Source: www.caranddriver.com

topic: Country, Strong, Regret, Becoming Successful, National Service

I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college.

- Porochista Khakpour

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: New York, College, Hands, Pasadena, Immigrant Parents