English Quote by Chris Abani

I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school…

— Toks Olagundoye

English parents don't spoil their children.

— Jean Marsh

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

— Jacki Weaver

My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and…

— Lev Grossman

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

— Arizona Muse

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent.…

— Amy Tan

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

— Helen Mirren

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must…

— Louise Bourgeois

After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later,…

— Brian Tyree Henry

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs