I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.
When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.
I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
I was not born for one corner; The whole world is my native land.
After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.
I feel privileged that people are looking up to me, and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.
I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.
I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that's where I was born. I've always wanted to wrestle.
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do!
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
