Ethel Waters Quotes

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

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• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Church

• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Live
  • City
  • Born

• New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Home
  • Born
  • New

• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Black
  • Born

• My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Success
  • Son
  • Born

• It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Experience
  • Born
  • Saturday

• I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Service
  • Born
  • Room

• We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Born
  • Two
  • I Was Born

• I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Matter
  • Place
  • Born

• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Born

• I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Born
  • Situation
  • Being

• My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mother
  • Person
  • Born

• I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Born

• One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Born
  • India
  • Lived

• I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Born
  • Situation

• I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Born
  • Camera
  • Naked

• Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Born
  • Target
  • Misfortune

• It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Life
  • Day
  • Born

• NEPA's common sense approach to foster discussion and collaboration about major development projects has worked well to protect our national treasures and resources.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Development
  • Collaboration

• There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Idea
  • Meaning
  • Lights

• How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Lonely

• I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Born
  • Wedlock