Australia Quote by Kelly Gale

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning…

— Greg Poehler

We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.

— Seinabo Sey

I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

— Philomena Kwao

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

— Anonymous

I grew up in a family that had young people adopted from all over the world.

— Ronan Farrow

I was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we lived there for three to five years - with my mother and father. And then they…

— Yasmin Aga Khan

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and…

— Maria Monk

I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to…

— Svetlana Alexievich

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white…

— Michael Franti

My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.

— Philomena Kwao