Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sathya Baba

Mothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!

Sara Sheridan

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix.

Titus Welliver

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.

Henry David Thoreau

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Roger Martin

We were born in France. It's our heritage. We want to democratize the French restaurant and people have come. It's not stuffy or stodgy.

Prince Royce

I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.

Ramez Naam

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

Brian Greene

I grew up going to mixed schools. In North Hollywood, where I was born and raised, it wasn't a real mixed area, but I never went to school there.

Bill Shankly

Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.

Maria Canals Barrera

'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!

Joe Torre

We know he just lives for this type of situation. You have to be born with that need to compete.

Sathya Baba

People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive every one requires the same nourishment; inner peace.

Cheryl Hines

Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

Eleanor Catton

I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

Roz Chast

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

Shelley Moore Capito

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Ken Dryden

As kids we knew whatever Canada was then it would be far greater tomorrow. That is the Canada I see today. That was the Canada born into me. Long before I ever wore the jersey, I wore the jersey.

As PT Barnum put it, there is a sucker born every minute. I'm glad to see the FBI warning consumers.

Sathya Baba

A bubble is on water and merges in water. Man is born in God and merges in God.

Warren G. Bennis

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy

Mark Schwarzer

It's just a dream come true - it's the pinnacle. It's a lifetime ambition. I was born in '72 so I was only two years old when we went there in '74.

A city clerk, but gently born and bred.

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.

Marjane Satrapi

Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

George Will

Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.

Judith Jamison

At 10, I could walk down the street and see over everybody's head. I don't remember being little or having to look up at people. I think I was born 5 feet 10. It's not that I felt especially tall. I was wondering when everybody else was going to catch up.

That motto was born out of telling the kids that we (the coaches) can talk about X's and O's all day, but they have to make their mind up that they want to get it done. I can't always call the plays that are going to work. Sometimes the kids have to take it upon themselves. No matter what it takes, no matter what we have to do, just get it done.

It's been good to me, and I had no desire to change. It's been lower than the dirt on the ground, but it bounced back, and it's going to keep doing it because it's original. It's the only music that was born in America. Everybody else brought theirs with them.

Marlee Matlin

It must have been born in me. I've been doing it since I was 7 years old. Maybe it was my family-we're very dramatic... we're Jews.

It's our position as a company, which is consistent with that of the cable industry, that at the bottom line - and it's borne out by research - that this will hurt consumers. It's going to increase prices, decrease choice and reduce the diversity.

Francis Beaumont

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / Merry Spring-time's harbinger.