Quotes of: I-was-born Keyword

I must admit, I was born to officiate; I was made to officiate. I miss it. I knew why I was doing it. God made me to umpire.

Doug Harvey

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

Diane von Furstenberg

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

Marlo Thomas

That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life

Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an egg in respect to the subsequent one, thus he is continually conceived and born: and this not only when he lives in the world, but also when h...

Emanuel Swedenborg

Muley Graves: There ain't nobody gonna push me of my land! My grandpa took up this land 70 years ago, my pa was born here, we were all born on it. And some of of us was killed on it! ...and some of us died on it. That's what make it our'n, bein' born...

The Grapes of Wrath

As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady gestation from about 1917 or so. Now, Mod certainly came of age, fully sure of itself by 1958, completely misunder...

Ruadhán J. McElroy

I know inside that there is more to life than this mortal coil. It's a very shallow minded person who thinks that someone is born and dies and that's it. I haven't gone through thirty odd years of suffering, and doing what I do, and looking at other ...

Jonny Kennedy

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

Naomi Campbell

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Samuel Beckett

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

Imelda Marcos

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

James Belushi

Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.

Cheryl Hines

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Jacqueline Cochran

He who is born with a weak intellect and a goiter can never be cured.

Italian

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

Turkish

Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The w...

Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Nemo age 9: I can remember a long time ago. Long before my birth. I was waiting with those who were not yet born. When we're not born yet, we know everything. Everything that will happen. When it's your turn, the Angels of Oblivion place a finger on ...

Mr. Nobody

When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick yo...

Love

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

Hedy Lamarr