Grandfather Quote by Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

My guy growing up was Deacon Jones from Eatonville, Florida, where I'm from.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was possible.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

— Tina Turner

I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey…

— Diana Ross

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

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I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

— Phil Daniels

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge…

— Kary Mullis

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of…

— Simon Newcomb

Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre…

— Wilbur Smith

I was born in Tower Hamlets in London Hospital, Mile End. I grew up in Stepney on a council estate and lived with my…

— Wes Streeting

My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.

— Andy Beshear

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

— Ashley Monroe