Christopher Quote by Jeremy Hardy

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

— Neon Hitch

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

— Jasmine Guinness

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder…

— James Black

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to…

— Jacob Rothschild

My father was born in 1925. He's pretty old. And his grandmother's cousin, I think, is Svante Arrhenius.

— Svante Thunberg

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my…

— Jamie Dornan

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

— Orson Welles

I realized my family was famous because I was looking in my history book and I saw my grandfather.

— Sky Blu

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel,…

— Nick Flynn

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken…

— David Cassidy

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom…

— Alan Hovhaness

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have…

— Eudora Welty