Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyra Banks

I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.

C. S. Lewis

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Sathya Baba

Men are born with a helpless lamenting cry; they should die with a smile of happy joy.

Sathya Baba

Mothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!

Sara Sheridan

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix.

One man said he was born there in 1924 and he was going to die there,

One hundred and fifty thousand Cambodian people in the United States now were either born in a refugee camp or their parents were born in a refugee camp. The person that sits next to you in class may be a refugee.

No one is born 'gay' and COMPLETE change is COMPLETELY possible.

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.

Jason Cook

My dad started me in wrestling. I have been around (wrestling) my whole life. I was born around Christmas and my dad had me in the wrestling room in mid-January.

Mark Twain

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

Richard Williams

My father was a doctor and I was born in our home, where he had his practice,

Nouriel Roubini

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.

My fantasy life was very full. Certainly when I was a kid, I probably wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be a princess, or something magical, and get to dress up magically, and have the kind of life that I hadn't been born into, with magic powers or whatever, and live this wonderful idealised life.

Tess Gerritsen

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.

Chord Overstreet

My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.

Obviously, if you were born in Finland, you want to play Sweden. That's the ultimate. The situation can't get any better, can't get any more exciting.

Obviously, if you're born in Finland you want to play Sweden and the other way around. That's the ultimate. It can't get more exciting.

Henry David Thoreau

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Roger Martin

We were born in France. It's our heritage. We want to democratize the French restaurant and people have come. It's not stuffy or stodgy.

J. Paul Getty

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

Joe Girardi

Since high school I've wanted to do this. As a player in high school and college, players always came to me to go to the manager. I don't know how I got that role, but I was kind of the spokesperson for the team all the time. I enjoyed it. I enjoy the competition, and I love studying the game. I think that's why I was born to manage.

This rally is for people to express their concern about immigration reform, and that isn't just limited to Hispanics. It includes Caucasians who were born here.

Andrew Kreisberg

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

She was a great person, a good mother, a wonderful sister and a great daughter. We were just a small family, born and bred in the Westchester area. This is just a huge tragedy.

She's a natural born leader. She knows what needs to be done and how to do it.

She's a natural born leader for us. I thought that bucket helped us to get (the momentum) back our way.

Marc Faber

The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.

We're not born to be wild, but we want him to take us on a magic carpet ride.

Bubba Sparxxx

Man, I'll tell you as far as creatively speaking man, there is stuff that is unique and different about every person that is born into this world.