Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Samuelsson

Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

Gene Luen Yang

For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.

It's not unexpected that we're going to see a few more isolated cases. It's obviously unwelcome, but pretty well around the world there have been what's referred to as 'BARB' cattle. Those are born after the ruminant ban.

It's obviously unwelcome, but pretty well around the world there have been what's referred to as 'BARB' cattle. Those are born after the ruminant ban.

It started in the Middle East. It was born from all the Middle Eastern countries, with input from the Gypsies. It's a very old dance form, but not specifically from one place.

Nicholas Kristof

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It's kind of like being the first born now. The last four years, the defense was the first born. If we'd get out of a meeting 10 minutes early, the defense was going to know about it before us. All the little things, the defense knew first. Hopefully now with an offensive-minded coach, we get some of those extra advantages.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

It just means that the person who's born happy doesn't have to try as hard -- just like thin people don't have to work at it as much. You can make yourself happier using all kinds of strategies -- but you have to put some effort into it.

It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.

Peter Steele

I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.

Natsuki Takaya

You can't be born again, but you can change.

Jim Rohn

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

Lil Mama

I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.

Leo Buscaglia

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

Pete Rose

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

Haruki Murakami

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

John Lennon

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

Langston Hughes

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

Kwame Nkrumah

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

Julianna Baggott

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Martin Luther

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

Pat Conroy

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one,

R. A. Torrey

The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.

Joe Namath

I was born with the gift.

Joe DiMaggio

All pitchers are born pitchers.

P. T. Barnum

There's one born every minute.

Lucretius

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Lorna Luft

I was born in a blender.

Michel de Montaigne

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

Mark Twain

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

Oprah Winfrey

You are worthy because you were born.

Leonardo da Vinci

One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

Paul Muldoon

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987