Brazil Quote by Rickson Gracie

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free…

— Claire Denis

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

— Kaya Scodelario

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.

— Trinny Woodall

My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.

— Jake Tapper

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

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

If you want to go way way back, then I'm Scottish. My great great grandfather was Scottish, James Gordon Harriott, and a white Scotsman…

— Ainsley Harriott

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

— V. S. Naipaul

A Japanese diplomat and jujitsu expert, Konde Maeda Kome, came to Brazil in the 1920s and there he met my grandfather, Gaston Gracie, who…

— Rickson Gracie

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

— Vic Mensa

My parents emigrated to the United Kingdom from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s. They were born during the British Empire and admired this…

— Suella Braverman

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

— Mika