Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Carnegie

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Anneliese van der Pol

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Anne Sexton

women are born twice.

Shimon Peres

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

I was born in Canada, went to school in Colombia and Denmark, and have worked for American, French and Swiss companies. So not much Scottish blood. But the good news is that I'm not English either!

Tony Judt

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

Sean Berdy

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all.

I was born by Caesarean section, but you can't really tell... except that when I leave my house, I always go out the window.

John Oates

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.

I was born at 3:05 on Monday morning.

Ally Condie

I was born and raised in southern Utah.

Joey Lauren Adams

I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.

Jack Horner

I was born and raised in Montana, so it's certainly an honor for me to be the state paleontologist. I take the honor very seriously. More than anything, it's an honor to be involved in the statewide education of kids.

Jason Mitchell

I was born and raised in Louisiana, but going to Tennessee gave me a chance to do something different. I didn't want to be hanging out with the same friends every day, every day. I wanted to learn how to do stuff on my own.

I was born and raised here, so I'm a little biased, but with each passing year, I have become more and more thankful that I live in Nevada. You don't see hurricanes or anything like that, other than an occasional record snowfall or a drought, and we're always in a state of drought here. The people of Nevada have kind of an individual spirit about them, and I fit into that, you have a lot of wide open spaces, and there's a lot of good fishing.

Doug Kramer

I was born and raised Catholic and now I do it full-time and on the job.

I was born and bred on Anglo-Welsh clashes and some of the games were infamous,

Cory Booker

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

I wasn't even born. I was born in 1978. They won in 1977. I missed it by a year. But to be honest, everyone talks about that year.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

Jessye Norman

I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. Every time that I can, I like to kind of mention it, you know, just to keep people sort of knowing exactly what's going on. My French is pretty good, but I'm still African, thank you very much.

Amin Maalouf

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

David Ortiz

He was born to hit. Manny has like, what, (13) years in the big leagues doing the same thing over and over and over? There's no doubt about it. That guy's a hitter.

He was born to be a point guard. I always told him when he was 14, 15 that he was better than when I was 14 or 15. The only difference is, I've told him, he was a guard and I was a forward.

He was born in Germantown, just outside of Memphis. There's a family plot there.

He was born in Baytown because there was no hospital in Sheldon.

He was born here, ... He didn't do anything other than British culture.

Joanne Woodward

Well, I was born and raised in south Georgia and South Carolina, and I went to school in Louisiana. Nature is very much a part of life in those areas.

J. Paul Getty

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

Marc Faber

The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.

We're not born to be wild, but we want him to take us on a magic carpet ride.