Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

John Beilein

I don't have any experience in this area. I've only had one child born during the season, but we were traveling on vans then.

Miyavi

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.

Sven Eriksson

I don't know what it means, but I'm not that pessimistic, I'm born that way. Miracles happen in life now and then.

I don't know much but I do know this - you are not in any situation by chance, every circumstance has been born of our thoughts and our utterances.

William Congreve

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Monica Raymund

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Laura Bush

I am delighted to be here. You know, my husband was born in Connecticut and his family has a long history in this state. I also hope you'll re-elect Chris, Nancy and Rob. Each one of them are passionate advocates for the people of Connecticut.

Ernest Hemingway

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We are born lucky. Yes, we are born lucky.

Ken Scott

He'd come up and hit you and you knew it was him. He was a born leader who didn't holler, but when he talked, they listened.

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

George J. Mitchell

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.

Seth Shostak

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Drew Houston

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Deborah Eisenberg

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

I feel extremely fortunate to be able to lead this squadron, ... My oldest daughter was born in Meridian and my family just loves it here.

Ruby Rose

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

Mary Crosby

I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.

I can trash talk every day of the week. No one talks more than me. I was born trash talking. When the doctor first spanked me to wake me up, I was talking trash, telling him he better not hit me like that again. I was even doing it in Little League.

Alan Rickman

I can only guess at the pressures of funding an independent theater company in New York, but calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been canceled. This is censorship born out of fear, and the New York Theatre Workshop, the Royal Court, New York audiences--all of us are the losers.

Marco Scutaro

If I was not going to be selected for Venezuela, I was going to play for another country. I want to be part of history. Now that I'm on the Venezuelan team, it's perfect. I was born here and I was raised here. It's an honor.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

From it the horses were born and all that have cutting teeth in both jaws. The cows were born from it, also. From it were born goats and sheep.

Jim was actually born in what is now our computer room.

I suspect that other cows have been born that were red or nearly red, but nobody paid attention. But when you're looking for it ...

I think it makes everyone want to raise their game. Honestly it's something that you can't teach. I think you're born with it.