Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Klug

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 the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

Abigail Washburn

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.

America Ferrera

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

The population shrinks due to fewer children being born and a continuing rate of out-migration. The oil industry, especially offshore, needs lots of capital but it doesn't need a lot of workers.

Blythe Danner

When she was born I was working. Bruce was a struggling young writer and a producer and had gotten some things done in New York. He was still, still at it. And I was already on Broadway.

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

But like the two cubs born here before her, the new Su Lin dramatizes the importance of working to make the world more secure for wild populations.

John Podhoretz

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

Polly Bergen

The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know how to do both. People think rich is better. I don't know.

David Bowie

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

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.

Pat Riley

The only reason there's a rivalry is because the media has created two icons, very young icons. I don't think there's any kind of rivalry yet. Rivalries are born out of hate. And I don't think players today in this league have a dislike for each other anymore. There's just too much backslapping and hugging and all that stuff.

Henry B. Eyring

The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.

Dikembe Mutombo

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

When you're born, you're actually born with the muscle cells you're going to have for the rest of your life. If you use them, and exercise and get those muscles working, you'll help them to grow. But if you don't use them, they're going to decline.

Jose Barroso

When we make the history of European integration we will say that energy policy was born on March 23-24, 2006. The conclusions are very, very important.

Paul Tagliabue

When Well Mara stood to speak at a league meeting, the room would become silent with anticipation because all of us knew we were going to hear profound insights born of eight decades of league experience.

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.

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.

Ameen Rihani

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

We will pursue this individual, we will search him out and try to get at least some of our money. The rest will be borne by the taxpayer.

Susan Stewart

Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.

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.

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.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.