Famous Quotes & Sayings

They seem to think he's a Mexican. Both he and his parents were born in the San Joaquin Valley.

Michael D. Barnes

This guy is a natural. He was born to be a great government executive. He makes things happen.

They say you're born with it, the gift, ... I think that's the case with Nick. He just grew up wanting to be a player.

Marcus Samuelsson

Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

Gene Luen Yang

For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.

It's not unexpected that we're going to see a few more isolated cases. It's obviously unwelcome, but pretty well around the world there have been what's referred to as 'BARB' cattle. Those are born after the ruminant ban.

It's obviously unwelcome, but pretty well around the world there have been what's referred to as 'BARB' cattle. Those are born after the ruminant ban.

It started in the Middle East. It was born from all the Middle Eastern countries, with input from the Gypsies. It's a very old dance form, but not specifically from one place.

John Hostettler

There were 5,000 fewer native born American citizens employed in 2004 than were employed in 2000, ... In contrast there was an increase of 2.3 million foreign born holding jobs during the same time period. Putting it another way, there was a net increase of 1.7 million total number of adults working in the United States from 2000 to 2004. All of that increase went to foreign born workers.

Samuel Daniel

This is the Thing that I was born to do.

This makes me very proud for my country but more than that I am myself proud. In Kenya my first son was born on Monday and it is obvious I will name him Helsinki.

It is really important for these guys to get born in captivity. We learn a lot from our Chinese colleagues and we share our knowledge as well. So there's a really nice panda community. We all get together and help each other. We're all very committed to help save pandas.

It is really important for these guys to get born in captivity, ... We learn a lot from our Chinese colleagues and we share our knowledge as well. So there's a really nice panda community. We all get together and help each other. We're all very committed to help save pandas.

It is said that if the person was born in that year the person has that characteristic. I am a snake, so therefore I should be mysterious.

Cassie Campbell

It's a passion these girls have and our staff has and Mel (coach Davidson) has for the game I think no other country understands yet. We're born with hockey sticks in our hands. When they get a taste of winning like we've had, they'll understand what we do on a regular basis.

It's a great start for the young people and their families, ... And for the young people who aren't even born yet who will come through this building.

Gary Johnson

I told you she was small. When I got her last year and took her down here ... everyone thought she had just been born she was so small. I had a tough time getting someone small enough to get on her.

Cecilia Bartoli

This is what I feel I'm born to do.

This is the happiest moment of my life. Being born here, I could never imagine this university actually existing.

Clint Black

It was for (my dad), and for me, and for all the people out there who really like the honky-tonk sound, and it was born out of a resistance to complacency,

Carlo Ancelotti

It was a victory born more out of strength than quality, which is rare for us.

Paul Bloom

Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.

Sunil Mittal

I was born in 1957 as the second son of the late Sat Paul and Lalita Mittal. My father was a politician and, at one point of time, an MP. A gap of two years separates me from both my elder brother Rakesh and younger sibling Rajan.

Trent Reznor

Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.

Trevor Moore

Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.

Tim Wise

Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men.

Sathya Baba

People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive every one requires the same nourishment; inner peace.

Parents are the child's most important teacher from the time they are born through high school.

William Blake

O! why was I born with a different face? / Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

Sarah Hall

Over the years, I've lived in a variety of places, including America, but I was born and raised in the Lake District, in Cumbria. Growing up in that rural, sodden, mountainous county has shaped my brain, perhaps even my temperament.

Our first child was born in that house in 1975. My wife and I lived upstairs because we'd made it like a little studio apartment, and my parents lived downstairs in the main house.

Out of compassion for them I, who dwell within their heart, destroy the darkness born of ignorance by the shining lamp of knowledge.