Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

C. S. Lewis

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

Anurag Kashyap

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

Edward Young

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

Avi Dichter

We should remember that they were not born with a lust for murdering Israelis.

We should only issue work-related visas if we really need them. There are 2.5 million native born American workers in the math and computer field who are currently out of work. It begs the question whether we truly need foreign workers.

Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Brian Selznick

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

Amish Tripathi

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Aidan Gillen

Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.

Steve Alford

I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.

Henry B. Eyring

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

Greta Van Susteren

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

Idi Amin

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

Ottessa Moshfegh

I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

Hunter Hayes

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

Huston Smith

The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.

Jane Goodall

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.

Ann Richards

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

Albert Hofmann

I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.

Czeslaw Milosz

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

Donald Kagan

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

Dale Carnegie

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

e. e. cummings

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

Andrew Carnegie

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Anneliese van der Pol

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.