Army Quote by Theo Paphitis

My father came to Britain in search of a better life. My aunts, uncles and cousins fled here in search of safety as Cyprus's…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

My family come from Cyprus. Both my father and my grandfather worked on the British bases there, and as the British government granted independence…

— Theo Paphitis

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a…

— Peter Diamandis

I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six.

— Theo Paphitis

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in…

— Arabella Weir

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though…

— Angela Bowie

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

My parents came from northern Cyprus in 1959 to the U.K. and they started a restaurant. I saw how hard they worked.

— Touker Suleyman

In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cyprus. I was supposed to go to England, but at…

— Julia Quinn

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

— Heather Brooke

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know.

— Sissy Spacek