I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles.
'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!
I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?
I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although maybe I did a little bit on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better!
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe.
I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.
I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.