Christmas Quote by John Barnes

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and…

— Mike Myers

My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'

— Cy Twombly

I had my American family and I had my English family and my English grandmother was very interested in me performing and singing and…

— Florence And The Machine

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

— Adelaide Clemens

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war…

— Gavin DeGraw

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up…

— Ashley Bell

My dad came from Trinidad to Jamaica when he was 19. He had to go to Jamaica to join the British regiment, where it…

— John Barnes

My father was in the admiralty and he rose to a very senior position. He was very formidable; a bit grumpy, but I loved…

— Ann Widdecombe

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called…

— Julia Child

My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke…

— George Ogilvie

My dad was an English professor.

— Blake Lively

My father was always respectful to my grandfather. I really wanted that to be known because I never saw him disrespect my grandfather, and…

— John Carter Cash