Famous Quotes & Sayings

That provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day

It's so great to hear that he's born and his feet are on the ground.

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.

They were born as private collections and not for public viewing. It is impossible to change structures like the chapels and hallways in the Apostolic Palace, so bottlenecks are inevitable.

Kasey Keller

They just think it's normal, ... When they go back somewhere and tell people they were born in London and then moved to Madrid and then we moved back to London and then we moved to Germany and lived in a castle for a while, it'll be interesting when they look back on it. That's when it will really sink in.

They know what they're doing, but their observations need to be born out in larger studies, and the therapies they're proposing need to be tested,

It was just born and not even dry yet. We were careful not to disturb it. I got up close, took a few shots and left.

Oh wearisome condition of humanity! / Born under one law, to another bound: / Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity; / Created sick, commanded to be sound.

William Shakespeare

No, I was not born under a rhyming planet.

Peter Dunne

New Zealand is a country with a very diverse population: 20 per cent of New Zealanders were born offshore. Patterns of migration are shifting and there are many more risks at our border.

Mark Twain

Not all horses were born equal. A few were born to win.

Mel Martinez

Not having been born in this country, but then moving on to citizenship, I understand the plight of immigrants. I understand what this has been about. I also understand about the rule of law, and I respect that.

Nicholas Kristof

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It's kind of like being the first born now. The last four years, the defense was the first born. If we'd get out of a meeting 10 minutes early, the defense was going to know about it before us. All the little things, the defense knew first. Hopefully now with an offensive-minded coach, we get some of those extra advantages.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

It just means that the person who's born happy doesn't have to try as hard -- just like thin people don't have to work at it as much. You can make yourself happier using all kinds of strategies -- but you have to put some effort into it.

It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.

Lindsay Pearce

Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with tangled legs; they never thought I'd be able to dance... without knowing it, as a child I overcame a lot thanks to really doting, loving parents and a great family and a hard work ethic on my part.

Lapo Elkann

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

Katrina Kaif

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

Jencarlos Canela

When we put music on, he kind of kicks in the belly, and it's cool to see how he's not even born yet, but he's already responding to the music. When I talk to him, he kicks as well. It's a very deep connection that I have with my son already and he's not even born. So I'm loving it.

When (Glen) got married, they had two natural born children born exactly to the date.

LZ Granderson

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.

Mickey Rooney

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

Nina Garcia

In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and personal grooming a matter of principle. There was never an occasion where she didn't show up looking picture-perfect.

Nikki Sixx

For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

Naomi Wolf

French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

Norman Geisler

All views can't be true because all views are opposite; this is the logical aspect. For example, Islam says we are good in nature; Christianity says we are born in sin. Islam says God is a man; Christianity says He is more than a man, He is God. All truths can't be the same.

Joe Namath

I was born with the gift.

Joe DiMaggio

All pitchers are born pitchers.

Kathie Lee Gifford

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

P. T. Barnum

There's one born every minute.