Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mead

Why is it coming to Idaho? Because we've never had a coal-fired plant, because we have excellent air, excellent water, and excellent soil. I come from, born and raised and lived in the midwestern state of Indiana where we had coal-fired plants all over the place. And yes we had asthma, yes there was always soot falling.

If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

Greta Van Susteren

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

Idi Amin

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

Ottessa Moshfegh

I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

Hunter Hayes

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

Huston Smith

The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.

Jane Goodall

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.

Ann Richards

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

Grant-Lee Phillips

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

Alan Hansen

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

Alan Keyes

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

Jerry Lewis

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth ... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

Marianne Williamson

Christ is born into the world through each of us.

Ben McLemore

I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.

We're all born with natural talents for something. Trying to match up those natural talents with their dreams, that's the general theme. Kids go to school and they do school work, but no one tells them why it matters.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face .... turned me over and said. Look ... twins!

Ruth Gordon

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never -- I repeat -- never under any conditions face the facts.

Henry David Thoreau

To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather

Jack Valenti

To have something happen that never before in our history have we ever borne witness to or imagined, that hits very deep in the entrails of this country.

Lord Byron

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Jose Manuel Barroso

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

Imelda Marcos

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Huston Smith

The faith I was born into formed me.

Pat Conroy

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one,

Leonardo da Vinci

One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

R. A. Torrey

The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.

Kirstie Alley

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

Oprah Winfrey

You are worthy because you were born.

Marilyn Monroe

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

Our diet starts when we are born and it makes sense that what you eat over a lifetime will make a difference.