I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
‐‐ Iman
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
‐‐ Alan Hovhaness
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.
‐‐ Trevor Noah
I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
‐‐ Jackie Walorski
I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.
‐‐ Mike Scully
I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.
‐‐ Desmond Dekker
I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
‐‐ Maya Angelou
I was born in St. Louis; I lived there for three weeks and then my father graduated from St. Louis University, so we all got in the car and split. I don't really remember much. I grew up in Connecticut most of my life and then four years in Germany. My father worked for a helicopter company, so we went over there.
‐‐ Kevin Nealon
I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.
‐‐ Arthur Lewis
I was born in Swansea in the Principality of Wales in September 1934 and named Clive William John Granger. The 'William John' names were traditional Granger boy's names, and my mother liked the name Clive because some popular musician at the time had it.
‐‐ Clive Granger
I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
‐‐ Daniel Ek
I was born in Swindon... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.
‐‐ Justin Hayward
I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.
‐‐ Michelle Rodriguez
I was born in the 1980s, so learning about the late 1960s was really fascinating, not only just because of the way things looked and sounded but because of what was going on in society at that time.
‐‐ Claire Holt
I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.
‐‐ Heston Blumenthal
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
‐‐ Abel Ferrara
I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I'd moved seven times with my family, my father's engineering work taking us to places as far-flung as Bay City, Texas, and Wolnae-Ri in South Korea.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard
I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke
I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who did not come to Israel to dispossess its residents.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon
I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
‐‐ Candy Crowley
I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.
‐‐ Timothy Simons
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood
I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
‐‐ Antonio Tabucchi
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.
‐‐ Harold E. Varmus
I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn
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.
‐‐ Carlo Rubbia
I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow
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.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger
I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.
‐‐ Cesar Romero
I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.
‐‐ Laurieann Gibson
I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.
‐‐ Norman Wisdom
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
‐‐ Eric Kandel
I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.
‐‐ Kristen Johnston
I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
‐‐ David Gross
I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.
‐‐ David Guterson
I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates
I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
‐‐ Jennifer Damiano
I was born in Wisconsin, but I quickly moved to Nigeria as a toddler.
‐‐ Jidenna
I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.
‐‐ Andrew Cherng
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann
I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick
I was born into a family of preachers.
‐‐ David Soul
I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark, New Jersey. Was the first person to graduate from college.
‐‐ Chris Christie
I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.
‐‐ Francesco Quinn
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
‐‐ Yoko Ono