Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maajid Nawaz

I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

Mohsin Hamid

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

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.

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.

Will Allen

We're not worried about what happened the last couple of years. This is a new team. This team was only born six months ago.

When he was younger, I didn't want him to wrestle because I just didn't like it. Then when he started wrestling, I fell in love with it. I think Sam was born to compete.

Mario Van Peebles

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Valerie Harper

Golda was born in 1898. Her life parallels the life of the Jewish people in the 20th century. The text is beautiful. It gives enough history so that non-Jews can follow it.

Maajid Nawaz

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

Maurice Allais

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

I was born into it. I had gone to court and watched him work and he seemed to enjoy it.

Tie Domi

I was born into business through my father. I was one of those kids who always wanted to be around his father when he was working. I used to be a fly on the wall when my dad went around. He had plazas, laundromats, that kind of thing. Just not to the extent that I'm doing it.

I was born into a very, very poor family during the war in 1941. Life was miserable for everyone.

I was born into a drug infested environment back in October of 1984, ... I witnessed things that many only see in movies. I saw a lot of gang violence and drug use while I was growing up. I used to see people dying all around me.

Jeffrey Kluger

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Carlo Rubbia

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Elizabeth Blackburn

I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists.

Justin Hayward

I was born in Swindon... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.

Mike Scully

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.

I was born in September. I hated the name when I was a kid, but I've grown with it. My dad wanted to give me a name that was unique, and he did it. Now, I kind of like it.

Chris Hadfield

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.

Marta Kristen

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Robert Fogel

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

Lupita Nyong'o

I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.