All Quotes

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.
‐‐ Joe Lhota

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.
‐‐ Daniela Ruah

I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
‐‐ Bryce Courtenay

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
‐‐ Vidal Sassoon

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.
‐‐ Norman Foster

I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.
‐‐ Mary Berry

I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
‐‐ Terry Gilliam

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.
‐‐ Robert Lefkowitz

I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts.
‐‐ Tim Hunt

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I was born in 1947, and my generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.
‐‐ Tony Judt

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
‐‐ Rick Baker

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
‐‐ Barry Marshall

I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.
‐‐ Per Petterson

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
‐‐ Lincoln Chafee

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

I was born in 1957 as the second son of the late Sat Paul and Lalita Mittal. My father was a politician and, at one point of time, an MP. A gap of two years separates me from both my elder brother Rakesh and younger sibling Rajan.
‐‐ Sunil Mittal

I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome.
‐‐ John Lasseter

I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.
‐‐ Eric Betzig

I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space was very relevant at that time. It was on television - all the experiments, the moon landings, everything like that.
‐‐ Sarah Brightman

I was born in 1960 into a more violent America than we had in 2014. We haven't been in such a good place for more than 50 years.
‐‐ James Comey

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
‐‐ Jeremy Northam

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
‐‐ Chris Abani

I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.
‐‐ Jennifer McMahon

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
‐‐ Carre Otis

I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
‐‐ Sarah Dessen

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.
‐‐ David Walliams

I was born in 1973, so I did not see 'Alien' when it was released theatrically. I saw 'Alien' when it was on Home Box Office. I think I was probably 10.
‐‐ Damon Lindelof

I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.
‐‐ Emiliano Salinas

I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

I was born in a blender.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.
‐‐ Sirio Maccioni

I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
‐‐ Kimberly Willis Holt

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.
‐‐ Little Milton

I was born in a little town called Lund in British Columbia. It's like a fishing village. My parents were hippies. They tried to live off the land, so I grew up in a log cabin, and we didn't get running water until I was 4. The next year, we got electricity. Then we moved to the city, Victoria, British Columbia, so I could go to school.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
‐‐ Taslima Nasrin

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.
‐‐ Alan Hansen