Grandparent Quote by Antony Sher

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

— Antony Sher

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from…

— Kola Boof

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a…

— Juliet Stevenson

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

— Mitch Horowitz

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and…

— Dhani Jones

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his…

— Edward Hirsch

I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been…

— Candice Swanepoel

“it is geography—especially in the displaced form of departures, arrivals, farewells, exile, nostalgia, homesickness, belonging, and travel itself—that is at the core of my…

— Edward Said

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

— Angelina Jolie

The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at…

— Nelson Mandela

It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a…

— Spencer Wells

My mum came to Britain from Clarendon, in the south of Jamaica, to make a better life for her family.

— Lenny Henry