Acres Quote by Wilbur Smith

My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a…

— Aliko Dangote

I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a council estate…

— David Olusoga

I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was…

— Larry the Cable Guy

My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda.

— Adina Porter

Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and…

— Aaron Klug

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he…

— Hillary Clinton

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

You could say I was born into entrepreneurship. My grandmother, who was from Sierra Leone, was left to raise four children in the 1940s…

— Richelieu Dennis

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

I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my…

— Trudie Styler

I was born and raised in Liberia in West Africa. My mother is Sierra Leonean, and my father's Liberian. I grew up at a…

— Richelieu Dennis

I was raised in a very, very loving household. I had quite unusual parents, and my father has always been my hero.

— Roxie Roker