Boarding Quote by Michael Smith

We grew up in a nice house in a very middle-class area in Bolton and had a very happy childhood. My mum, Falak, who…

— Amir Khan

Mum and Dad ran a seaside hotel in Anstruther in Fife. It was a family run business, so I worked in the kitchen and…

— Edith Bowman

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge…

— Kary Mullis

As a young child, my family holidays were always in Rock, Cornwall, with my parents, older brother Kim and sister Nicola.

— Toyah Willcox

Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18…

— Leo Varadkar

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as…

— Paul Nurse

My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do…

— Erykah Badu

My mother and father were farmers from very humble means, and when I was three years old they moved from the roca to the…

— Tite

My upbringing was very basic working-class on the outskirts of Nottingham. My mother, Glenis, was a nursery nurse, looking after special-needs children, and my…

— Mathew Horne

When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father…

— John Burnside

My parents grew up on different ends of the same street in St John's in Antigua.

— Andi Oliver

Mum came to Crawley from Sri Lanka at 19 after marrying my dad. Later, Dad had financial problems and they split for a while.

— Romesh Ranganathan