My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother…

My mother was born in Sinaloa, and she moved to Los Angeles when she was three years old. My father was born in San…

— Alanna Ubach

When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual…

— Frederick Buechner

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for…

— Susan Straight

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother…

— Monica Raymund

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the…

— Samuel Alito

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

My family come from Antigua, my mother was born in Saint Kitts.

— Andi Oliver

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was…

— Carlos Slim

My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.

— Philomena Kwao

My mother was born in Switzerland, my stepfather in Canada.

— Susan Straight

I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda…

— John Cornforth

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my…

— Ice T

“born in Newark... educated in Trenton... enlightened in LA...experienced in Brooklyn...actualization in Houston...manifestation in Ft. Myers”

— Alan Mitchell

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of…

— Ice T

“Hattie’s children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.”

— Ayana Mathis