History Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

I grew up in a little fishing village called Anstruther in East Fife in upper Scotland.

— Edith Bowman

My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life,…

— Johann Lamont

My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI.…

— Joanna Going

About 6,000 years ago, St. Paul Island, a tiny spot of land in the middle of the Bering Sea, must have been a strange…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than…

— Ella Baker

I grew up on a fishing village, a little river, South Carolina.

— Scott Bessent

My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and…

— Julie Payette

I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.

— Rhiannon Giddens

For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You…

— Dana Stabenow

Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Castle in Ayrshire.

— Susan Eisenhower

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

— Lizz Winstead