Cairo Quote by Augusten Burroughs

“My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. Other people sound flat to…

— Augusten Burroughs

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

— Rebecca Hall

I sound like my mum and I like that. I like that I sound like where I'm from.

— Aimee Lou Wood

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

— Amyra Dastur

What's not to like about a curling iron that does all the work itself?

— Brandi Rhodes

My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected the accent.…

— Hisham Matar

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

— Vic Mensa

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

— Lenny Henry

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.

— Chris Hadfield

I'm Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.

— Sam Esmail

I love where I'm from. That's where my mother and father grew up, where all my family's at. It really built me.

— Mark Ingram II

My mother is an American.

— Robert J. Sawyer