British Quote by Amy Jackson

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little…

— Roger Allam

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

— Heather Brooke

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

— Tony Robinson

My parents were immigrants from Pakistan. My father has passed away now, but my father and mother were very proud of Britain, and they…

— Sajid Javid

My parents emigrated to the United Kingdom from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s. They were born during the British Empire and admired this…

— Suella Braverman

My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

— Bob Hope

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly…

— Paul Rudd

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And…

— David Bowie

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked…

— Meaghan Rath

My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army…

— W. G. Sebald

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

— George Michael