Bogs Quote by Jasmine Guinness

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota…

— Richie Havens

I knew dad was born in Yorkshire and mum was from Mountain Ash.

— Shakin' Stevens

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

— Leo Sayer

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

— Dominic West

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

— Lenny Henry

I was the youngest, and there was my mother, my father and my brother. They each had their own way of turning anything, from…

— Michael Rosen

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of…

— Seamus Heaney

My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet,…

— Richard Rodriguez

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few…

— Sarah Lancashire

I was born and brought up in England.

— Raj Kundra

There are four of us, and we were all born in different cities because my dad worked all around the place. We settled in…

— Gwilym Lee