Born Quotes

My parents separated before I was born, but they remained friends, so I was close to both sides of my family, with siblings and cousins and godparents. I've had the same best friend since grade six. Winnie Harlow

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. Wislawa Szymborska

You Yourself Nothing Sun Born New Wrote Were Nothing New

I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five. Wong Kar-wai

Year Hong Kong Born Shanghai Kong Five Moved

'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy. Woody Harrelson

Natural Comedy Born Misunderstood Romantic Romantic Comedy Really

I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there's a part of it that I feel this connection to. Wyatt Cenac

Time Heights Spent Kid Brooklyn Born Crown Part Feel New Lot York New York Grandmother Connection Lived

I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh. Yami Gautam

Parents Born Brought Both Up

My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me. Yara Shahidi

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war. Yasmine Hamdan

War Civil Born Civil War Lebanon Middle

You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people. Yemi Osinbajo

You Change People Mind-Set Corrupt Born Want

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. Yoko Ono

Family Important Wealthy Born Emperor Were Very Japan Grandfather Descendant

If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop. Yung Lean

Punk Born Hip-Hop Artist Just

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things. Yuri Milner

Science Amazing Perspective Important Understanding Think Universe Our Defines Able Born Gives How How Far Been Handful Very Accurate Get Predictions Far Us Really Special Many Species Things

I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me. Zac Posen

Work Me Rain Born Singin Raised

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. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me. Zbigniew Brzezinski

War Me World Think Others Harvard Born Something More Could Student Feel Identify Became Accepted Felt Revealing How Denied End Very Quickly America American After Homeland Filled Here Vacuum World War World War II

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities. Ziad Doueiri

I seemed to have been born reading. Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Reading Born Seemed Been

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country. iO Tillett Wright

Rest Country Androgyny Freak Born Manhattan Realize Raised

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born. Salman Rushdie

The more cynical commentators on our careers would say that the northern accent has been the basis of our success. There's a certain authenticity to the voice - which isn't to my credit; I was just born there. Bob Mortimer

Success Cynical Our Say Has-Been Would Born More Voice Accent Been Authenticity Northern Just Which Certain Credit Basis Careers

In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I don't have the right accent. Farah Khan

Family Character Woman Though I Was Born Born Accent Play Right

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice. Henry Rollins

Sacrifice Country Born Glory Selfless Blood America Patriotic Acts

It's such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we're not coping, because we're supposed to be all right with all the different roles we're born with and are piled on us later on. Zawe Ashton

Women Difficult Later Born Admit Supposed Because Piled Roles Different Us Different Roles Right Thing Coping Difficult Thing

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