All Quotes

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.
‐‐ Anupam Kher

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis

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

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
‐‐ Elon Musk

I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.
‐‐ Richard Smalley

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.
‐‐ Paula Poundstone

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.
‐‐ Jessica Sanchez

I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.
‐‐ Graeme Base

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
‐‐ Friedrich St. Florian

I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
‐‐ Tony Curtis

I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.
‐‐ Emilio Ambasz

I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
‐‐ Nacho Figueras

I was born in August, no July, 1908.
‐‐ Satchel Paige

I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.
‐‐ Garry Hynes

I was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and I came to attend high school in Massachusetts when I was about 15 years old.
‐‐ Nina Garcia

I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.
‐‐ Francois Englert

I was born in Berlin on March 15, 1830, the second son of the royal university professor K. W. L. Heyse and his wife Julie, nee Saaling, who came from a Jewish family.
‐‐ Paul Heyse

I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C.
‐‐ Connie Britton

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
‐‐ Merton Miller

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
‐‐ J. Philippe Rushton

I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
‐‐ Natalia Kills

I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.
‐‐ Vik Muniz

I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany, and only German was spoken there. After the Second World War, Breslau became Polish, and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war.
‐‐ Reinhard Selten

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
‐‐ Laura Osnes

I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
‐‐ Adam Driver

I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.
‐‐ Chris Geere

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
‐‐ Patrick Chan

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.
‐‐ Renato Dulbecco

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.
‐‐ James Tobin

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
‐‐ Douglas Wood

I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.
‐‐ Gil Scott-Heron

I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.
‐‐ Harry Markowitz

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
‐‐ Adam Rapp

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.
‐‐ Kenneth Koch