Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's the great thing about the tournament. Everyone is starting over. It's like you're born again.

That provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day

Certainly, we know that not all those kids were born here, and we know they don't always stay here.

Hooman Majd

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

As a result of both these events, thousands fewer puppies and kittens will be born in this area.

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Matthew Arnold

A wanderer is man from his birth. / He was born in a ship / On the breast of the river of Time.

Increased costs are being borne because they are filling huge deficiencies in the regulatory approach.

Kellan Lutz

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

Mark Twain

I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born

I knew there was a year that coach didn't win a game, but I didn't know it was the year we were born until now. He (Evans) is a great coach and has taught us great fundamentals.

I knew I was born to play sports,

I'm proud to be able to call myself a European citizen, born in Italy.

John Caudwell

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

Orlando Jones

I'm from that part of the country. I was born in Mobile. Ala. and grew up in South Carolina. I have family in Miss. Having gone through a number of hurricanes myself, none obviously as devastating as this one, one of the things you forget about is that at least as a parent, you're able to understand what has transpired in your life. But for a one- or two-year-old, it's a completely different level of devastation because everything that they know and have ever known is gone.

George Carlin

I'm having fun because I don't take it (life) seriously - the only things I care about are my family, friends, work and my lady, Sally. Philosophers for a long time have said 'why are we here?' - I'm here for the entertainment. If you're born in the world, you're given a ticket to the freak show; if you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

W. S. Gilbert

I often think it's comical / How Nature always does contrive / That every boy and every gal, / That's born into the world alive, / Is either a little Liberal, / Or else a little Conservative!

Juanes

I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English at the beginning. I am very thankful for this country and the opportunity music has given me... My three kids were born here in Miami; they speak Spanish at home, but English with all their friends.

David Hernandez

I looked at the number of people that went with children and I thought of the kids that were born here. We are going to have a major impact. There is going to be a push by those kids for voter registration. Both the Republicans and Democrats will be going after these kids.

I'll miss it very much, ... It's going to be very, very difficult when we leave. I've watched families grow up here. Children that were born here are now married and now have their own children. I'll miss it all.

I have three sisters and two brothers. My younger brother and I were born here, but the rest of my family is from Cambodia. My family went through hard times in Cambodia and came here in the early '80s.

Romy Schneider

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.

I heard George Crumb?s ?Black Angels? and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to play.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing.

I knew a lot before simply because I was born in Fort Worth.

Robbie Williams

I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song.

Steven Bauer

I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.

I'm a country girl who was accidentally born in the city.

Denis O'Hare

I'm 48, and I have been in love with vampires since I was six. I was born in 1962, so I've been through three or four waves of vampires. When I was growing up, we had vampire shows and movies. We were still dealing with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the old Christopher Lee vampires.

I loved Sherlock Holmes when I was younger. So you can imagine how excited I was to discover that Conan Doyle had helped found Portsmouth football club. When I was playing there I did some research into it. Very interesting. Did you know Dickens was born in Portsmouth?

John Patrick Shanley

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

T Bone Burnett

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.