America Quote by Edward Rutherfurd

I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and…

— Bill Bailey

My mother was Welsh and I loved going to Wales every summer, where Uncle Les had a farm. My mother had seven brothers and…

— Keith Allen

Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went…

— Kelly Macdonald

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

— Antony Hewish

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

— Lenny Henry

We moved to Wales when I was quite young, but we frequently visited the rest of my family, especially my mother's side.

— Joseph Morgan

Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London in the…

— David Lammy

I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.

— Laurel Van Ness

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I'm a Bristol person too, I lived in Bristol during the war.

— Julian Glover

My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda.

— Adina Porter