I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. ‘Ice Ice Baby’ is about that area.
I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.
Yeah, I was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. My parents lived in a little town called Eagle Grove. My mom taught high school and my dad was an instructor at the community college.
Remember that it’s never too late and you’re never too old to get the body you were born to have.
I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia’s great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I’ve listened to her since I was a little kid – the first album I ever bought was ‘A Star is Born’ with Kris Kristofferson.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
If you are not born a Ronaldo or a Kaka, you can still become a great player through commitment, serenity, perseverance, loving what you do.
Everybody I know who is funny, it’s in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don’t like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn’t born in me.
My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.
I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He’s got a big schnozz on him, too.
I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.
Austin is home in a lot of ways. Both my kids were born here, and my wife’s side of the family lives here.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I find Instagram interesting to the extent that new royal families are born and die there, such as The Kardashians of L.A.
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
My mom was born in Korea – Seoul, Korea, during the ’50s, ’51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the ’50s. That’s where she was raised.
When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years.
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don’t want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.
The Lib-Dems are sidekicks. They were born to be sidekicks and that’s what they should concentrate on being.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
I’m luckier than my grandfather, who didn’t move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Prenatal education can only be an unconscious result of what the parents, particularly the mother, do. If, until the child is born, the mother acts in such a way that she expresses what is morally and intellectually correct, then what she accomplishes in her own continuing education will transfer to the child.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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.
Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
I lost my accent pretty quickly, so everyone assumes I was born and raised in America. But I’m very much still in touch with my Filipino roots. That will never go away.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by – for some in our town, right out the front door – stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.
I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.
I was born in a big city – Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine – but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk.
