But he said he had been moved by the sight of tens of thousands of immigrants yearning to become Americans.
Our nation was born in that spirit, as immigrants yearning for freedom courageously risked their lives in search of greater opportunity.
Like Shaun Tan's The Arrival, Here I Am does a superlative job of conveying the immigrant's yearning to belong, to shuffle together the new and old cards of identity into a coherent pack.
The owners -- both of them Chinese-Indians -- said their best chance of surviving in this economic downturn was to offer something Indian immigrants were yearning for and that few others were serving -- home-cooked Chinese.
"But now there's more demand — tourists who want to trance, jazz aficionados who like the percussive tones, young North African immigrants who yearn for music from home and are generally more open to Gnawa than the older generation".
Immigrants also yearn to go to work at their business, or office, or school, and in turn, spend money in the local economy.
He also published "I Had Nowhere to Go," his often haunting memoir that traces his early life as a Lithuanian refugee during World War II, and his later struggles both as a displaced person in Europe after the war and then as an immigrant living, working, yearning and shooting his first films in New York City.
A Brooklynite (raised in East New York, living in Midwood) who talks like a film noir gumshoe, Mr. Lowich began his love affair with cabs when he was a child, the son of immigrants from Poland, yearning for adventure.
Eye to eye, Samy and his attacker probably had more in common than they wanted to realize: both were bound by a legacy of immigrants and a yearning to belong.
