I Quotes
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“I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.”
“I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it was an environment which involved both the traditional religions as well as the Muslim religion, so we were exposed to all the various facets of faith, micro cultures which existed within those beliefs, and even though I've lost whatever Christian faith was drummed into me as a child, I still maintain very good relationship with all the various religions.”
“I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.”
“I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.”
“I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.”
“I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.”
“I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw.”
“I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.”
Source: Fever
“I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.”
“I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.”
Source: Seconds Before Sunrise
“I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.”
“I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously.”
“I was born into public service.”
“I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.”
“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.”
“I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.”
Source: 'Tis Herself: An Autobiography
“I was born into the studio and all I really know is dance.”
“I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite my mortal disposition, I possess my voice. I have that which is gifted to me from the bosom of the gods. The beauty of self-expression. And through this gift I will come to know and share the true nature of reality”
“I was born into this world of hate.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.”
“I was born into wealth, so I wouldn’t be. Anyway, the treasure I seek is not for greed.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga
“I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.”
Source: Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography
“I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That's my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.”
“I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.”
“I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.”
“I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese.”
“I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.”
“I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.”
“I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.”
“I was born longing to die.”
Source: Memoirs of a Madman and November
“I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.”
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.”
“I was born Magnificent , I'm Magnificent and I'm a piece of GOD”
“I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.”
“I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.”
“I was born modest, but it didn't last.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.”
“I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.”
“I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.”
“I was born not late and not early,
This time is blessed and meet,
Only God did not allow a heart
To live long without deceit.
And from this it is dark in the light room,
And from this do the friends I've sought,
Like the sorrowful birds of evening,
Sing of love that was not.”
“I was born not to die but to live and never born.”
“I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.”
“I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.”
Source: Maybe You Never Cry Again
“I was born of ash, I lived as electricity, I'll end in ash, and someone somewhere will carry my insanity.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“I was born of dust, I live as flame, for I choose to be human, not a dead name.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology