Quotes of: I-was-born Keyword

I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.

Lyle Kessler

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

Katy Perry

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Frederick Douglass

I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.

Greg Boyle

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

John Malkovich

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

Eddi Reader

Capitán Vidal: I choose to be here because I want my son to be born in a new, clean Spain.

Pan's Labyrinth

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Louis MacNeice

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

Karen Hughes

My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.

Eric Kandel

Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and mobile. I do not believe that it exists everywhere; I be...

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

I was thinking, and realised how simple my goal has been— just to be me! I didn't want to be a good person and change the world; I just wanted to be me! Against all odds, I wanted to make sure that I turned out as myself and not into my family, my ...

C. JoyBell C.

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and pape...

Sean Berdy

I was not born with English in my pocket.

Conceptualizing and measuring human anxiety on the Internet

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

Deborah Copaken Kogan

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

Odd Thomas

Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)

The Tempest

Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

Queen Latifah

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

Ron Perlman

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

Clint Eastwood