Top 100 I Was Born Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About I Was Born

#1. My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

Natasha Bedingfield

#2. My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

Gale Gordon

#3. Perhaps I was born to be of two Colors.

Pierce Brown

#4. I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#5. I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it. Some people, like some of the women I know, have a black belt in spending. They were born with that. But what they gave me was a black belt in chutzpah.

Charlie Munger

#6. I know I was born and I know that I'll die
The in between is mine
I am mine

Pearl Jam

#7. For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed
relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Jen Hatmaker

#8. Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

Lynne Cheney

#9. My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

William Gilbert

#10. I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

Amy Pascal

#11. I have it on good authority that I was born in Utah.

Floyd Gottfredson

#12. I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

Hanya Yanagihara

#13. I was born without a filter on my mouth.

Laura Stamps

#14. I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

Alice McDermott

#15. I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

Natalie Babbitt

#16. Mom: Why aren't you doing very well in history? Billy: Because the teacher keeps asking about things that happened before I was born!

Various

#17. Beirut is where I was born and raised.

Reem Acra

#18. I was born to enjoy life. And so it is.

Louise Hay

#19. I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

Cat Stevens

#20. ...I'm restoring my foreskin because I was born with one, and damn it, I'm going to die with one.

Kristen O'Hara

#21. I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.

Rodney Dangerfield

#22. When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#23. I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.

Nelson Mandela

#24. All right," he said. "My name is Oswaldo Alexander Romero, I was born right here in Virginia, and I like romantic comedies, books about sparkling vampires, and long walks on the beach.

Jon S. Lewis

#25. My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

Ginger Rogers

#26. I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

Gary Locke

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

Mickey Rooney

#28. I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

James Branch Cabell

#29. I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.

Barry Sanders

#30. I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why.
[I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]

George Herbert

#31. She'd been born for him. And I was born to find her ...

Kresley Cole

#32. When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

Rodney Dangerfield

#33. The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.

Teodor Flonta

#34. I was born with a fierce need for independence.

Michelle Williams

#35. My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

Tracy Morgan

#36. I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

Carmen Ejogo

#37. Once I was born, her hopes had turned and I had climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun

Dorothy Allison

#38. I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Colin Powell

#39. I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

Linda Conrad

#40. My mom always says I was born thirty-five years old and that I get more middle-aged every year.

Stephenie Meyer

#41. The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.

Donald Bradman

#42. I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

Olivier Martinez

#43. I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

David Gross

#44. I've been gay since the day I was born.

Andy Cohen

#45. I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.

Georgette Mosbacher

#46. I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn't get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.

Ellie Goulding

#47. I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Sophia Loren

#48. I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.

John Elkann

#49. I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Lydia Leonard

#50. My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

Stephanie Herseth

#51. I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

Ringo Starr

#52. My upbringing was very un-Hollywood ... I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#53. I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.

Arthur Lewis

#54. I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside.

Bob Sheppard

#55. In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

Peter Ackroyd

#56. I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

Geronimo

#57. 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

#58. I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

J. Philippe Rushton

#59. I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

Marla Gibbs

#60. I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

Andrea Bocelli

#61. I was always a Favre fan. I was born in Wisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up watching him.

Colin Kaepernick

#62. She reached down and traced my eyebrows. 'You do have really beautiful eyes.'
'We get to keep them,' I said.
Grace started at my voice. 'What?'
'It's the one thing we keep. Our eyes stay the same.' I unclenched my fists. 'I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

Maggie Stiefvater

#63. Friday, July 7, 1865
It is time then to write the last words that I shall ever write and close the book. I was born to die, as are we all. The end is there, held within the beginning.

Pamela Redford Russell

#64. I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Michelle Rodriguez

#65. 'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#66. I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

Hugo Pratt

#67. Some people look like they were born on a clothes hanger. Not me. I look more like I was born in a dryer.

Sheila Turnage

#68. Animals, People and Trees Will All Bow
By My Very Appearance.
I Bowed When I Was Born.
P.C.M. Hermans

Petra Hermans

#69. How did the world ever manage without me before I was born?' he wondered. 'Didn't they feel something was missing?

William Steig

#70. I've never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across my neck to get his whispers into both my ears.

Joshilyn Jackson

#71. I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

J. August Richards

#72. I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.

Lady Gaga

#73. Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

Ice-T

#74. I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

Mark Oliver Everett

#75. I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

Ronit Roy

#76. I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.

Jon English

#77. My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.

Tiger Woods

#78. When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

Javier Bardem

#79. I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Cynthia Ozick

#80. I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

Danica McKellar

#81. But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

Sam Donaldson

#82. I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#83. I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years ... but then I went to a library and it was okay.

Helen Oyeyemi

#84. I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.

David Walliams

#85. I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.

Daryl Hall

#86. I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

Marco Rubio

#87. I'm 48, and I have been in love with vampires since I was six. I was born in 1962, so I've been through three or four waves of vampires. When I was growing up, we had vampire shows and movies. We were still dealing with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the old Christopher Lee vampires.

Denis O'Hare

#88. I thank God," he used to say, "that I was born Greek and not barbarian, freeman and not slave, man and not woman; but above all, that I was born in the age of

Will Durant

#89. I was born to make mistakes, I ain't scared to take the weight.

Erykah Badu

#90. I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#91. I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.

Ben McLemore

#92. I was born in Japan, so for me, Uniqlo is a family brand. My granny used to wear Uniqlo. And my Italian dad wore Uniqlo. I wore Uniqlo, of course.

Nicola Formichetti

#93. I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.

Peter Hermann

#94. I was born a Christian, but I became an atheist back in high school because I just started losing faith. I'd lost my brother and best friend, Nadarius. I couldn't get a job. But I do feel like there is a higher power now, and it's inside of me.

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