Dad Quote by KT Tunstall

I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees.…

— Miranda Hart

I remember standing on the stool next to Mum and making white sauce for a cauliflower cheese for the Sunday meal when I was…

— Andi Oliver

I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.

— Jessica Henwick

Between 1965 and 1980, my mother, Frances Junod, served cutlets of pale flesh - mostly veal and chicken, though sometimes pork - to my…

— Tom Junod

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a…

— John Green

“It was on the fifteenth of June, 1767, that Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, my brother, sat among us for the last time. And it…

— Italo Calvino

“In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with…

— Jodi Taylor

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

— Jasmine Guinness

I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that…

— Bill Bryson

When I was growing up, every Sunday was a rest day, so after church, we'd get all my cousins and sisters together, and my…

— Jessica Mauboy

I tell people my breasts were made in Normandy from butter and creme fraiche.

— Laetitia Casta

In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that…

— Lady Gregory