Celine Buckens Quotes

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

Celine Buckens

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• 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

• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

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

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Home
  • Theatre
  • Parent

• Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Important
  • Parent
  • Survival

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

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Born
  • Mozart
  • Parker

• Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Born

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
  • 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

• I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Evolution

• I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Born
  • Joining
  • Old-fashioned

• My mom was a single parent.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Single
  • Mom
  • Parent

• Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Parent
  • Often

• I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Parent

• It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Parent

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

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Born
  • Situation

• Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Dad

• When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.

  

  Zachary Schomburg
  • Dying
  • Parent
  • Kitchen

• We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

  

  Ethel Percy Andrus
  • World
  • Born
  • Lessons

• Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Soul
  • Evil
  • Moral

• Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

  

  Dana Gioia
  • Understanding
  • Poetry
  • Thought

• My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

  

  Celine Buckens
  • Born
  • Parent
  • Belgians