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“I was born in a hospital. I do not want to die in one.”

Death Born Adventure Health Birth Thank God Die Hospital Live Life To The Fullest

Author:J.R. Rim

“I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.”

Born Fiction Library

Author:Luanne Rice

“I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.”

Littles Born

Author:Little Milton

“I was born in a little village in the south of Holland called Mierlo. It was great growing up in Mierlo. It's a lovely little town where you can run around in the streets and climb trees and all that stuff when you're a kid. Then, when you're a teenager, it's not so fun. But I moved to Paris when I was very young.”

Running Kids Fun Growing Up Tree Moved Lovely Teenager

Author:Lara Stone

“I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.”

House Born White Garden Lovely White House

Author:Judy Garland

“I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.”

Two School Mother Father Born Class Middle College Brother Towns Middle Class Physicians Small Town Elders Qualified Housewife Bangladesh Liberal Education Younger Sister Muslim Family

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I was born in a Negro town.”

Born Race Birth Towns

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.”

Humans Beautiful Born Justice Rain Forests Dense Crayon

Author:Katherine Applegate

“I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.”

Father Sports Born Poor Class Study Middle Very Good Forests Department Middle Class Clerks Middle Class Family Poor Family

Author:Anupam Kher

“I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.”

Born Slums

Author:Jesse Jackson

“I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.”

Certain House Born Privilege Islands Crucial Dichotomy

Author:Tavares Strachan

“I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.”

War Country Mother Born Nasty Estates Better Off Housing Despised Suburbs Wales

Author:Nina Bawden

“I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.”

Born Grew Grew Up Garden Paris Suburbs Barbecue

Author:Vanessa Paradis

“I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU in Art History. I initially gravitated towards singing. Acting sort of sprang out of that as a means to participate in musicals.”

Mean Art Born Acting Singing Absence Suburbs Philadelphia Art History Nyu

Author:Gideon Glick

“I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.”

Seems Born University Campus

Author:Amartya Sen

“I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty.I decided that I would not live for myself but would live for others.”

Children Used Mother House Born Poor Poverty Decided Sells Coaches Tea Household Livelihood Railway Live For Others Poor Family Utensils

Author:Narendra Modi

“I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.”

People Grows Born Growing Up Advantage Towns Marvelous Small Town Dakota North Dakota

Author:Warren Christopher

“I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.”

Born Technology California Competitors New Technology Fruition

Author:Elon Musk

“I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out”

Firsts Heart Born Church Groups Television Singing Sight Sunday Alabama Live Music

Author:Tommy Shaw

“I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.”

Done Born Months Alabama

Author:Paula Poundstone

“I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.”

America Born Filipino

Author:Jessica Sanchez

“I was born in an earlier generation and, as a group, my classmates at Blair Academy and Princeton University were as ethical, straightforward, and integrity laden as you could possibly imagine - perhaps not a 100% - but the overwhelming majority. I've been in business a long, long time and I simply cannot imagine seeking out cheating, greedy people.”

People Long Imagine Integrity Cheating Ethical Overwhelming Greedy Straightforward Classmates

Author:John C. Bogle

“I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.”

Children Said Remember Mother Father Born Elevators Only Child

Author:Jack Lemmon

“I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.”

Thinking Should Trying Has Beens Feelings Kids Wanted Felt Born Hurt Attention Special Needed Should Have Spots Odd Sensitive Touched Should Have Been Wanted To Be Loved Somebody Special

Author:Dolly Parton

“I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.”

World Ends Age Term Born Wonder Five Catholic Ancient Conservative Feminist Rage End Of The World Chile Ancient Times

Author:Isabel Allende

“I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.”

Born Periods

Author:Tony Curtis

“I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.”

Wells America Parent Born Study Let Me University June Argentina Princeton Princeton University

Author:Emilio Ambasz

“I was born in August, no July, 1908.”

Born July August

Author:Satchel Paige

“I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.”

Thinking Kind America Born Grew Grew Up Australia Trans Pacific Foreign Service

Author:Jane Alison

“I was born in Bahrabise, Sindhupalchok District, Nepal — a small town that taught me how truth and courage can shape stories bigger than ourselves.”

Life Inspiration Truth Courage Roots Storytelling Journalism Nepali

Author:Roshan shrestha

Source: The Digital Voice of Nepal: A Journey of Roshan Shrestha

“I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”

World Ends Born Grew Thousand Projects Grew Up End Times Jersey New Jersey

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.”

Way May Long Fall Born Figures Long Time Long Way Pennsylvania Beavers

Author:Papa John Creach

“I was born in Belgium and moved to Amsterdam when I was 17. I am not a Calvinist Dutchman but a Catholic Belgian. I think that makes a big difference.”

Thinking Bigs Born Differences Catholic Moved Belgium Amsterdam Belgians

Author:Eddy de Clercq

“I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.”

World Feels School America Born Citizens England Belgium Switzerland

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C.”

Littles Stills Mother Born Hours Gone Four Cutting Middle Hair Seven Boston Virginia Little Time Middle Of Nowhere Maryland Hair Cut

Author:Connie Britton

“I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.”

Born England

Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.”

People Ifs Born Cities England Bradford

Author:Natalia Kills

“I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.”

Years Born Citizens Brazil Global Citizen American Citizens

Author:Eduardo Saverin

“I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.”

Needs Kind Order Born Fiction Fit Standards And Love Science Fiction Raised I Realized California Vegetarian Comment Bothered Science Love

Author:Aisha Tyler

“I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.”

Born Six Towns Moved California Small Town Indiana

Author:Adam Driver

“I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.”

People Want Has Beens Made Important School Jobs Born Pay Equal Shots Towns Raised Chicago Tennessee Equal Pay

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.”

Mother Literature Sides Born Known My Family Ohio Cincinnati Ohio

Author:Kenneth Koch

“I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.”

Years School Born Court Supreme Supreme Court Segregation Public School Columbia Racial Segregation

Author:Randall Kennedy

Source: For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

“I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.”

Parent Born Months Hollywood My Sister Connecticut

Author:Linda Evans

“I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.”

Knows Years Persons Social Born My Own Know How Conversation Moved Shy Awkwardness Few Friends Shy Person Copenhagen Bangalore Social Awkwardness

Author:Deepika Padukone

“I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.”

Made Born Usa Cuba

Author:Gustavo Perez Firmat

“I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a very cruel, oppressive dictatorship, and the revolution started in the high schools and the universities. So when I was 14, I was involved in the revolution. I was in the revolution four years. During that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up in Cuba, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.”

Years Age School Young Suffering Names Born Talking Leader Four Revolution Involved High School Rose University Four Years Dictatorship Cuba Charismatic Castro Hope And Change

Author:Ted Cruz

“I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. Ice Ice Baby is about that area.”

Born Baby Areas South Raised Ice Texas Florida Dallas South Florida Dallas Texas

Author:Vanilla Ice

“I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.”

Book Country Age Lasts Parent Born Four Late Moved Parks Regions Coming Of Age Resorts 1960s Suburbs Trailers Toronto Cottages Connecticut Ontario Trailer Park

Author:Linwood Barclay

“I was born in darkest ignorance. My spiritual master taught me the truth of the Universe”

Canvas Bose Aniruddha

Author:Aniruddha Bose

Source: Canvas

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