Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ada Yonath

My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.

Alia Shawkat

I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.

Abigail Washburn

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.

America Ferrera

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

Cormac McCarthy

You are either born a writer or you are not.

Avi Dichter

We should remember that they were not born with a lust for murdering Israelis.

We should only issue work-related visas if we really need them. There are 2.5 million native born American workers in the math and computer field who are currently out of work. It begs the question whether we truly need foreign workers.

Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Brian Selznick

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

Amish Tripathi

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Aidan Gillen

Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.

Steve Alford

I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.

Henry B. Eyring

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

When you're born, you're actually born with the muscle cells you're going to have for the rest of your life. If you use them, and exercise and get those muscles working, you'll help them to grow. But if you don't use them, they're going to decline.

Jose Barroso

When we make the history of European integration we will say that energy policy was born on March 23-24, 2006. The conclusions are very, very important.

Paul Tagliabue

When Well Mara stood to speak at a league meeting, the room would become silent with anticipation because all of us knew we were going to hear profound insights born of eight decades of league experience.

Blythe Danner

When she was born I was working. Bruce was a struggling young writer and a producer and had gotten some things done in New York. He was still, still at it. And I was already on Broadway.

Fire is born from wood (as two sticks are rubbed together), but then devours its parents.

But like the two cubs born here before her, the new Su Lin dramatizes the importance of working to make the world more secure for wild populations.

Dave Obey

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.

Aimee Mullins

I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.

Bob Balaban

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

Adelina Sotnikova

The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.

John Grahame

There are 25 people who are interested in Bulldog Pipes and Drums, but it's tough because our club is literally being born right now.

David Byrne

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

Ameen Rihani

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

We will pursue this individual, we will search him out and try to get at least some of our money. The rest will be borne by the taxpayer.

Susan Stewart

Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.

This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but mean and ugly.

Guru Nanak

Those two creatures, who are born of wives of other men, cause to the giver the loss of the rewards , both in this life and after death, for the food sacred to gods or manes which has been given to them .

This was a woman that wanted her child. And this was a child that would have been born if my daughter hadn't been killed.

There is a big demographic wave of Hispanic kids who are native born who will be turning 18 in even greater numbers over the next three, four and five election cycles.

Corey Hart

When I sit down at a piano, I feel what's going on in my life and what led up to it. Certain songs are born from that motivation.