Edward Robb Ellis Quotes
Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!Edward Robb Ellis
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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 -
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp -
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 -
Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
Nancy Gibbs -
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
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
Nathan Lane -
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
Ralph Baer -
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 -
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
Yoko Ono -
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
Ted Cruz
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
Dambisa Moyo -
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 -
I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
Zendaya -
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
Abraham Lincoln -
Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.
Gayle Forman -
I'm the rogue Canadian in my family – I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
Eleanor Catton
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw -
I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of the marathon is all mental. But what better city to have this in than New York City where there are millions of people there supporting you?
Apolo Ohno -
I don't know whether I'm half, quarter or what. I just know I'm aboriginal.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
Natalie Massenet -
We're very excited . . . I'm flying up in a few days to Rochester. We're doing a few production rehearsals up there for a few days and then we kick off the tour on the first. So it's an exciting time for the Priest.
Richie Faulkner Judas Priest -
Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!
Edward Robb Ellis