Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grant-Lee Phillips

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

Alan Hansen

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

Alan Keyes

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

Jerry Lewis

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth ... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

Marianne Williamson

Christ is born into the world through each of us.

Ben McLemore

I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Dave Obey

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.

Aimee Mullins

I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.

Bitsie Tulloch

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

Bob Balaban

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

Adelina Sotnikova

The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.

John Grahame

There are 25 people who are interested in Bulldog Pipes and Drums, but it's tough because our club is literally being born right now.

We love playing music. We were born to play rock 'n' roll and that's all that matters.

There is a big demographic wave of Hispanic kids who are native born who will be turning 18 in even greater numbers over the next three, four and five election cycles.

Corey Hart

When I sit down at a piano, I feel what's going on in my life and what led up to it. Certain songs are born from that motivation.

David Mead

Why is it coming to Idaho? Because we've never had a coal-fired plant, because we have excellent air, excellent water, and excellent soil. I come from, born and raised and lived in the midwestern state of Indiana where we had coal-fired plants all over the place. And yes we had asthma, yes there was always soot falling.

We're all born with natural talents for something. Trying to match up those natural talents with their dreams, that's the general theme. Kids go to school and they do school work, but no one tells them why it matters.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face .... turned me over and said. Look ... twins!

Joyce Brothers

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Dane Cook

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

Isak Dinesen

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

Isabella Rossellini

I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.

The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.

Dominique Moceanu

For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.

Cheryl Hines

Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

Eleanor Catton

I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

Tim O'Brien

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

Roz Chast

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

Shelley Moore Capito

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Fire is born from wood (as two sticks are rubbed together), but then devours its parents.