All Quotes

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
‐‐ Barry Hannah

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
‐‐ Adam McKay

I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.
‐‐ Randall Kennedy

I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
‐‐ Harold Feinstein

I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.
‐‐ Linda Evans

I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.
‐‐ Michael Steele

I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.
‐‐ Lesli Linka Glatter

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
‐‐ Vanilla Ice

I was born in Dallas; then I moved to Allen, Texas. But then I got sent to boarding school, where I started to get fascinated with actors like Al Pacino.
‐‐ Scott Haze

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'
‐‐ Linwood Barclay

I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of this painter who lived and worked in the 15th century.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.
‐‐ Steven Seagal

I was born in Detroit, then shortly after I was born, I went on the road with my mother, who performed with Minsky's, a variety show that toured around the U.S. doing five shows a day.
‐‐ Seymour Cassel

I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
‐‐ Falk Hentschel

I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.
‐‐ Ksenia Solo

I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just for the Middle Ages, but all periods of history. My favorites are medieval, Elizabethan, and Georgian; however, I've written stories set in periods as early as ancient Rome, right up to the Victorian era.
‐‐ Virginia Henley

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.
‐‐ Nicholas Stoller

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
‐‐ Abigail Washburn

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.
‐‐ Dorothy Malone

I was born in Faridabad and I spent a major part of my growing up years in Delhi before shifting to Mumbai. Delhi-NCR is still very special to me.
‐‐ Sonu Nigam

I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.
‐‐ Sonu Nigam

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.
‐‐ Chris Stapleton

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
‐‐ Benjamin Millepied

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.
‐‐ Joan Crawford

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
‐‐ Colin Powell

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
‐‐ Daisy Fuentes

I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.
‐‐ Jason Momoa

I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My dad always thought Europe was a bit too small for him. He wanted to see the United States... The typical immigrant story. He wanted a better life for his children, too. He always tried to get the visa, and it didn't come up.
‐‐ Frank Oz

I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.
‐‐ Helena Christensen

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
‐‐ Alfred Stieglitz

I was born in India - but never really lived there.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
‐‐ Hooman Majd

I was born in Israel. My parents came in 1925.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.
‐‐ Kathryn Stockett

I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets.
‐‐ Peter Blair Henry

I was born in Japan, so for me, Uniqlo is a family brand. My granny used to wear Uniqlo. And my Italian dad wore Uniqlo. I wore Uniqlo, of course.
‐‐ Nicola Formichetti

I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
‐‐ Tammy Blanchard

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
‐‐ Ada Yonath

I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
‐‐ Ada Yonath

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.
‐‐ Darby Stanchfield

I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.
‐‐ Lucien Smith

I was born in L.A. County Hospital, but I grew up in Pasadena. I married my 8th grade sweetheart, Marcia.
‐‐ Stephen J. Cannell

I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara