Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

My idea is that young people who are not as jaded about technology and the use of technology as we are, who didn't create the technological age, but are born into it, may be able to create software that addresses the issues that pertain to the human being and lead toward the advancement of creativity and the human spirit.

My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips.

Judy Gold

My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.

Grace Gealey

My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America.

Sathya Baba

Many great kings, emperors, saints and seers have left without taking anything. When you are born you don't bring anything with you. Render service in divine awareness.

Tyler Oakley

Look, nobody is born with a sociology degree, and no one can understand all perspectives. Nobody's going to get it all from the very start. But the Internet at least allows everyone to hear these perspectives at a much faster rate than if we had to do it without it.

Maria Canals Barrera

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!

Luis Suarez

Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.

Elizabeth McCracken

My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.

Thomas Piketty

I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.

Richard Flanagan

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

I was born to do this. I started when I was 3 1/2, my father is my master, my brother is a master. I was born into this.

Sylvia Browne

I was born this way, and I don't know how I do it. I can do it from a piece of paper. I can do it from a letter. I can do it from a phone. I don't know how I don't... It just comes in. It just comes in. I don't know how to explain it to you. It just comes in.

Imelda Marcos

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.

John Marshall

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.

Jean-Marie Lehn

I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ, and became, later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop.

Amity Gaige

I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

I think sewing is a stress release. I'm not sure people are born quilters, but I do think it's in their make?up to get such joy from it. It's a way to express yourself.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'm so ugly - My mother had morning sickness - After I was born

Last year I wore one for four weeks when I played for my old team in Sweden. Everyone born there later than 1965 has to wear one. It's tough when you're not used to one.

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

Clint Walker

I was actually born in Hartford, a little Mississippi River town and raised in nearby Alton.

I wept when I was born and every day explains why

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Charles Canady

Partially born children are being eviscerated, you can see it right here.

Paths to legalization for those who are here and for those who remain here makes sense. Legalizing these immigrants will reduce some of the competition they provide to native born workers.

Tony Blair

Particularly with the shock of knowing that those that have perpetrated this were actually born and brought up in this country, I think it is particularly important we recognize the worldwide dimension of this,

Gregory Benford

Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.

Shelagh Delaney

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

Today, there are problems that could only be solved by people which are still to be born later. This is one of many ways how God replies to mankind's questions and prayers.

Doug McClure

Told ya. Born lucky - lucky and handsome. And today I'm gonna be free." ()

Ann Veneman

We know the farm that it had been on, and we will track back to see where it was originally purchased and what farm it was born on.