Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honeysuckle Weeks

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

Grover Norquist

A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.

Oriana Fallaci

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

Oscar Isaac

I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

Paul Bloom

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

Patrick Chan

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.

Penny Marshall

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I was born with confidence in myself and who I am. Even when I was a little kid, I felt that, and I carried it all through my years. I'm 26 now, and I'm still that person. I think every woman needs to have that self-love.

Mary Ellen Mark

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

Richard Hough

We were slightly surprised by the level of controversy that made its way into the press and the workplace. The controversy was borne more from the target side than from the nature of our client as a US investor - there are plenty of those around.

You are born to your position, ... What do you know of struggle, of triumph?

Sathya Baba

You are born as human with the goal that you should not be born again.

Petrarch

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

We're very sensitive to everyone's concerns, even if the concerns are born of misunderstanding.

Darin Strauss

V. S. Pritchett was one of the most admired, fun, talked-about writers of the 20th century: he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work with prose. He was born in 1900, wrote till he died in 1997, and has been tidily forgotten ever since. This is a real shame.

Paul O'Grady

I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.

Myles Munroe

I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.

Peter Jackson

I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

Joanne Woodward

Well, I was born and raised in south Georgia and South Carolina, and I went to school in Louisiana. Nature is very much a part of life in those areas.

Whole towns shut down on Friday night for games. Every small town. I was born here in California. I know it isn't like that here.

Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.

You learn through mistakes - no one was born a master

You know if it gets predictable, it wouldn't be interesting. It's been nice to see our concept born out and have drivers from other disciplines want to be here.

That was his opinion, ... It wasn't borne out by the marketplace.

Shimon Peres

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

I was born in Canada, went to school in Colombia and Denmark, and have worked for American, French and Swiss companies. So not much Scottish blood. But the good news is that I'm not English either!

Tony Judt

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

Sean Berdy

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all.

I was born by Caesarean section, but you can't really tell... except that when I leave my house, I always go out the window.

John Oates

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.

I was born at 3:05 on Monday morning.

Ally Condie

I was born and raised in southern Utah.