Born Quotes
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.
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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.
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My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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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.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
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I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
