All Quotes

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.
‐‐ George J. Mitchell

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
‐‐ Olivier Martinez

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.
‐‐ Ami Bera

I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.
‐‐ Jayne Meadows

I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
‐‐ Steve Case

I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.
‐‐ Jasmine Tookes

I was born and raised in L.A. My father was born and raised in L.A. So we're old hands here.
‐‐ Tim Matheson

I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
‐‐ Jonathan Groff

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.
‐‐ Tessa Thompson

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
‐‐ IO Tillett Wright

I was born and raised in Maryland and attended the public school system.
‐‐ Brendan Iribe

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
‐‐ Aida Turturro

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.
‐‐ Ana Ortiz

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.
‐‐ Jake T. Austin

I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.
‐‐ Toks Olagundoye

I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.
‐‐ Joey Lauren Adams

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
‐‐ Natalie Babbitt

I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.
‐‐ Corey Reynolds

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

I was born and raised in southern Utah.
‐‐ Ally Condie

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.
‐‐ Penny Marshall

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.
‐‐ Harry Reid

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.
‐‐ James Denton

I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.
‐‐ Osric Chau

I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
‐‐ Dambisa Moyo

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.
‐‐ Georg Solti

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.
‐‐ Robert H. Grubbs

I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time.
‐‐ Maria Monk

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
‐‐ Ed Koch

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
‐‐ Judy Garland

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
‐‐ John Oates

I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.
‐‐ Eric Bristow

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

I was born curious.
‐‐ Peter Guber

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.
‐‐ Lindsay Pearce

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all.
‐‐ Sean Berdy

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.
‐‐ Heinrich Boll

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.
‐‐ Gloria Vanderbilt

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

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.
‐‐ Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.
‐‐ Robert Huber

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.
‐‐ Michael Moriarty

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.
‐‐ Robert Powell

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
‐‐ Maria Mitchell

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.
‐‐ Jon Scieszka

I was born gay, just as I was born black.
‐‐ Don Lemon

I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.
‐‐ Bonnie Tyler

I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
‐‐ Harmony Korine

I was born here and I was raised here in Los Angeles. And when I was five years old, my best friends were Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.
‐‐ Troian Bellisario