Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sexton

women are born twice.

What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests.

Harold E. Varmus

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Cormac McCarthy

You are either born a writer or you are not.

David Byrne

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

Amartya Sen

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Amin Maalouf

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

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.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

Wayne Wonder

I actually grew up in the city. I was born in Portland (in the country), but I was brought to the city ever since I knew myself at a tender age.

He was a child who felt for other people, and though I can try to take credit for teaching him that, it would not be true -- he was born with that gift.

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.

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.

David Bull

Whatever kinds of hatreds and guilt may be borne by the people on both sides of the conflict, it's not the fault of the children.