Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live and, it may with truth be added, are born and die. This population is quite distinct in race from the land population of Canton, which looks down upon it as a pariah and alien caste.

Taryn Manning

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

Roberto Aguire

I guess I'm kind of a mutt. I was born in the U.S., my parents are from Mexico, and I grew up in Switzerland. It's weird because I sound American, but I spell theater 'theatre' with the 'r' before the 'e'.

Basically, with Born Innocent we gave ourselves the target of completing it in eight months. We've done the same thing with Restless Soul. In the past we've spent too long waiting for the inspiration to come and worrying about repeating ourselves.

Emma Stone

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.

Judy Davis

I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact.

Deborah Eisenberg

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

I don't think you can make a child have ADHD. A child is born with a predisposition, and the environment will make or break that predisposition.

For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

For those of you who weren't lucky enough to be real geeks, if you feel the need to tap into your inner geek, you have my blessing. Just remember, we were born this way - you just have to dress like it.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Robert Jeffress

God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Valerie Harper

Golda was born in 1898. Her life parallels the life of the Jewish people in the 20th century. The text is beautiful. It gives enough history so that non-Jews can follow it.

Jim was actually born in what is now our computer room.

I suspect that other cows have been born that were red or nearly red, but nobody paid attention. But when you're looking for it ...

I think it makes everyone want to raise their game. Honestly it's something that you can't teach. I think you're born with it.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

David Bull

Whatever kinds of hatreds and guilt may be borne by the people on both sides of the conflict, it's not the fault of the children.

Will Allen

We're not worried about what happened the last couple of years. This is a new team. This team was only born six months ago.

When he was younger, I didn't want him to wrestle because I just didn't like it. Then when he started wrestling, I fell in love with it. I think Sam was born to compete.

Mario Van Peebles

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

Kim Yuna

I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

Wayne Wonder

I actually grew up in the city. I was born in Portland (in the country), but I was brought to the city ever since I knew myself at a tender age.

He was a child who felt for other people, and though I can try to take credit for teaching him that, it would not be true -- he was born with that gift.

Ken Scott

He'd come up and hit you and you knew it was him. He was a born leader who didn't holler, but when he talked, they listened.

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

He worked many hours a day. I think he was a born volunteer.

Bob Dylan

He who's not busy being born is busy dying

Bob Dylan

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

He who is born a fool is never cured

Robert Thompson

He is like a pig in slop in this thing -- this is clearly what he was born to do. When I first heard about 'The Apprentice' I thought it was a great idea for a show -- and I thought Donald Trump was going to stink the whole thing up. I was 100 percent wrong.

He has such a great personality a lighthearted personality that kind of draws people to him. Some people are born leaders, and he's a born leader.