Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annalee Newitz

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Henrik Ibsen

In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.

Jenna Marbles

If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.

Dan Hill

In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.

Kim Campbell

Canada's first Prime Minister sought, unsuccessfully, to give women the vote. Today, a century after his passing, a woman stands before you as Prime Minister of Canada. Canada's first Prime Minister also sought, successfully, to bring British Columbia into Confederation. Today, I stand before you as Canada's first Prime Minister born and raised in British Columbia.

Certainly, we know that not all those kids were born here, and we know they don't always stay here.

Hollywood, where an intrigue and a victim are born every time two people meet.

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

E. B. White

He's legally blind, born like that, wears those Coke-bottle glasses.

Juanes

I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English at the beginning. I am very thankful for this country and the opportunity music has given me... My three kids were born here in Miami; they speak Spanish at home, but English with all their friends.

David Hernandez

I looked at the number of people that went with children and I thought of the kids that were born here. We are going to have a major impact. There is going to be a push by those kids for voter registration. Both the Republicans and Democrats will be going after these kids.

I'll miss it very much, ... It's going to be very, very difficult when we leave. I've watched families grow up here. Children that were born here are now married and now have their own children. I'll miss it all.

I have three sisters and two brothers. My younger brother and I were born here, but the rest of my family is from Cambodia. My family went through hard times in Cambodia and came here in the early '80s.

Romy Schneider

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.

I heard George Crumb?s ?Black Angels? and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to play.

Mohammad Ali

I probably won't even be able to recognize or identify many of the children who were born during this long dissociation.

He's really not the most gifted of the guys. He's not born with special ability. He has to work real hard.

J. I. Packer

The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.

E. B. White

The last three generations of our family, there hasn't been one natural death. There were eight of us children, born in the Ozark mountains. Today there only remain my mother, my sister and myself. The rest all died in various accidents. So you see my fate will get me sooner or later.

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

David Bowie

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

Susan Stewart

The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Charles Dickens

Some people . . . may be Rooshans, and others may be Prooshans; they are born so, and will please themselves. Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Speech includes fluency, articulation, and voice. Language involves how people organize their thoughts and ideas to express themselves and how they understand spoken words and messages. Feeding and swallowing treatment addresses the needs of individuals who were born with or have developed feeding and swallowing problems typically due to neurological conditions.

Gilbert Parker

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

John Galsworthy

born to be loved and to love who when not loving are not living

born into poverty, as a 3-year-old dealing with a mother dying of breast cancer, raised by a 12-year-old sibling.

Cheech Marin

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.

Born after sunset, dead by daybreak, his 11-hour scrap of existence was little more than a shuttle down fluorescent hallways, a tour of wards and laboratories.