Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joey Lauren Adams

I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.

Jack Horner

I was born and raised in Montana, so it's certainly an honor for me to be the state paleontologist. I take the honor very seriously. More than anything, it's an honor to be involved in the statewide education of kids.

Jason Mitchell

I was born and raised in Louisiana, but going to Tennessee gave me a chance to do something different. I didn't want to be hanging out with the same friends every day, every day. I wanted to learn how to do stuff on my own.

I was born and raised here, so I'm a little biased, but with each passing year, I have become more and more thankful that I live in Nevada. You don't see hurricanes or anything like that, other than an occasional record snowfall or a drought, and we're always in a state of drought here. The people of Nevada have kind of an individual spirit about them, and I fit into that, you have a lot of wide open spaces, and there's a lot of good fishing.

Doug Kramer

I was born and raised Catholic and now I do it full-time and on the job.

I was born and bred on Anglo-Welsh clashes and some of the games were infamous,

Cory Booker

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

I wasn't even born. I was born in 1978. They won in 1977. I missed it by a year. But to be honest, everyone talks about that year.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

Jessye Norman

I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. Every time that I can, I like to kind of mention it, you know, just to keep people sort of knowing exactly what's going on. My French is pretty good, but I'm still African, thank you very much.

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.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To live is to be slowly born.

Bill Shankly

Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.

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.

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.

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.

Marianne Williamson

We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Michael Chertoff

Well, I said in July before Katrina that we had a lot more work to do in preparedness. And I think that was borne out, obviously, a month later.

Antoine Lavoisier

Nothing is born, nothing dies.

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.

Bob Schneider

That's quite a hunk of tobacco to chew. I was born in that house in 1919. I didn't have sense enough to leave town, though.