All Quotes

I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.
‐‐ Chris Milk

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
‐‐ Irwin Thomas

I was born into an artistic family, and they understood me. But they were really worried, because some of the stuff I did was dangerous. If I'd been caught without the veil with a shaved head, I don't know what would have happened.
‐‐ Golshifteh Farahani

I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?
‐‐ James Comey

I was born into an upper-middle class family in a village in the South of Sweden in April 1899. It was a large family with seven children, a large house, and a home which was very hospitable and open to friends and relatives.
‐‐ Bertil Ohlin

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

I was born into public service.
‐‐ Janice Hahn

I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
‐‐ Ger Duany

I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for some years head of pediatrics at Provident, the nation's oldest black hospital. My mother was a social worker who left her job when she married, and throughout my childhood, she was a full-time wife, mother, and socialite.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
‐‐ Buddha

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion. But I've studied all religions, and as you learn more, you really learn that everyone's praying to the same God.
‐‐ Goldie Hawn

I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
‐‐ Nathan Lane

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.
‐‐ Ned Beatty

I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.
‐‐ Paul O'Grady

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
‐‐ Ben Okri

I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.
‐‐ Charles Durning

I was born loving music. It was always my friend.
‐‐ Diane Warren

I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
‐‐ Michael Caine

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.
‐‐ Maurice Allais

I was born Muslim, but for a large part of my life, I wasn't necessarily raised Muslim. My father always kept everything around us, from Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy.
‐‐ Lupe Fiasco

I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

I was born 'neath a clouded star.
‐‐ Julia Ward Howe

I was born nine months premature.
‐‐ Jay London

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.
‐‐ Marion Ross

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.
‐‐ Lorraine Toussaint

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
‐‐ Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
‐‐ Burton Richter

I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.
‐‐ John Cornforth

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
‐‐ B. B. King

I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.
‐‐ Amity Gaige

I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.
‐‐ Myles Munroe

I was born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition.
‐‐ Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.
‐‐ Vladimir Prelog

I was born on Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, but we moved around a lot.
‐‐ Carrie Vaughn

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.
‐‐ Joe Tex

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.
‐‐ Martin Ryle

I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ, and became, later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Lehn

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.
‐‐ John Marshall

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.
‐‐ Pete Rose

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London.
‐‐ Martin Evans

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.
‐‐ Howard Schultz