I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
My grandfather is from Peshawar; he was born there.
A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
I have two young children, and they both adore books. Reading together at bedtime is one of our favorite nightly rituals. 'Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site' by Sherri Duskey Rinker, 'The Giving Tree' by Shel Silverstein, and 'On The Night You Were Born' by Nancy Tillman are always on our list.
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!
I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.
When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.
Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.
I was born and raised in the Midwest, where people were taught that decency and integrity and community were all important values. We were democrats with a little 'd.'
I was born in our Chembur house in Mumbai, where we lived for five years after which we shifted to our Lokhandwala house.
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for some years head of pediatrics at Provident, the nation's oldest black hospital. My mother was a social worker who left her job when she married, and throughout my childhood, she was a full-time wife, mother, and socialite.
I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
