I’m not gonna do the same, tired, standard ‘I was born in a log cabin…’ kind of book. There’s so much more I want to do.

Columbus was born around 1492. I say around because before that the world was flat. My stomach also used to be flat, but now it looks like a globe is about to be born.

I have a relative who is also gay. We can’t help it if they were born that way.

We are born in one moment. We die in one moment. We can change in one moment. And we can fall in love in one moment. Anything can happen in just one moment.

None of us gets to choose how we’re born, it’s what we make of ourselves afterwards.

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a...

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

When {Born and Heisenberg and the Göttingen theoretical physicists} first discovered matrix mechanics they were having, of course, the same kind of trouble that everybody else had in trying to solve problems and to manipulate...

Leadership is something I was born with.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It...

‘Giving 2.0’ was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

In many ways, I’m incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it’s visible. It means my path has been predictable.

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction,...

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.

If you want to know my story, you have to go back to the beginning. Not the beginning-beginning, but about nine months later. You see, I was born as a poor farm boy. Believe it...

As they say in the bible, that you’re supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they’re born, because it’s one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born,...

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.

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.

I wouldn’t say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

I’d prefer to die in Texas when I’m old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that’s where I entered the world, so that’s how I’ll leave it. 

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

The best date I’ve ever been on was March 5th, 1982, the year I was born. For as long as I live, I’ll never forget that date.

Born to fly, endless possibilities.

I’m from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I’m born and bred country. That’s all I listen to.

I was born tomorrowtoday I liveyesterday killed me

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

New York’s my home. Born and raised. I’m a New Yorker to the bone.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs ’cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism – there is...

Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I...

Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, “Do it again”; and every evening to the moon and the stars, “Do it again”; and every springtime to...

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, ‘Wow, you’re still friends with your ex, man? Really? That’s weird.’ I don’t play that.

I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It’s full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

A person is born with a liking for profit.