When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.
‐‐ Pixie Lott
When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
‐‐ Liam Payne
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
‐‐ Gracie Allen
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield
When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
‐‐ Graham Nash
When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof
When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on. Maybe your grandmom and your grandpop have something to add to the name of the child.
‐‐ Dikembe Mutombo
When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.
‐‐ Lizzo
When I was born, my father owned a business called a 'reading circle'; folders containing an assortment of magazines were lent to customers for one week, then recollected and lent out again. The older the folder, the lower was the fee. This was a flourishing branch of industry.
‐‐ Reinhard Selten
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich
When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.
‐‐ John Updike
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut
When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
‐‐ Patrick Chan
When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai
When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.
‐‐ Condola Rashad
When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
‐‐ Sally Field
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood
When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.
‐‐ George Osborne
When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'
‐‐ Romario
When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They'd only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.
‐‐ Henry Allingham
When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.
‐‐ Lewis Gordon Pugh
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
‐‐ Javier Bardem
When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.
‐‐ Paul Watson
When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
‐‐ Bebe Neuwirth
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
‐‐ Joe Louis
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
‐‐ Doris Lessing
When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?
‐‐ Chris Moneymaker
When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities.
‐‐ Max von Sydow
When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.
‐‐ Colin Angle
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
‐‐ Maya Lin
When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.
‐‐ Michel Martelly
When I was cast as Gendry, I didn't have any of the physical attributes the part required. I was astounded that I got the role, to be honest.
‐‐ Joe Dempsie
When I was cast for 'Walking Dead,' I was still doing 'Lone Ranger,' so I have my 'Lone Ranger' look with the handlebar mustache. I think everybody appreciates the professional mustache.
‐‐ Lew Temple
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz
When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.
‐‐ Boman Irani
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
‐‐ Bill Parcells
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
‐‐ Joe Torre
When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard
When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs
When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.
‐‐ Lilly Singh
When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.
‐‐ James McBride
When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis
When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.
‐‐ John Slattery
When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?
‐‐ Miguel Cabrera
When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
‐‐ Michael Clarke Duncan
When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock
When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.
‐‐ Ben Schwartz
When I was coming up, it was the golden age. It was Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, and Reese Witherspoon was starting. You really had, 'Who is America's Next Sweetheart?' every couple of years. And then this sort of bromance slacker thing took over.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks