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“I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.”

Born Cities New York Raised New York City Manhattan Descent Born And Raised Uptown

Author:Ana Ortiz

“I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.”

Born Cities Mexico Mexico City

Author:Paulina Rubio

“Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.”

Believe Made Born Simple Cities Raised Kansas Missouri Kansas City

Author:Chely Wright

“First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.”

Firsts Stills Wanted House Fun Grows Born Animal Cities Growing Up Knowing Growing Stage Kings Reruns Second City

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.”

Men Firsts Born Cities

Author:Euripides

“Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is "Yokel", but San Francisco is "City at Heart".”

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Author:Will Rogers

“My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.”

Has Beens Together Young Mother Born Cities Brother Dad My Dad Boat Borders Germany Immigrants Passages Brothers And Sisters Could Have Been Poland Montreal Austria Large Family

Author:William Shatner

“I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.”

Three Born Cities Week Travel Decided Paris Born To Live

Author:Ed Bradley

“Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!”

Should Firsts Looks Has Beens Today Born Cities New York Should Have Train New York City Should Have Been Grandeur Terminal

Book:A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

Source: A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

“Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.”

Poetry Born Simple Poor Cities Fields Flower Woods Strain Lanes Meadows Aloof

Book:Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

Source: Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

“The only city people are those born so.”

People Born Cities

Book:Ade's fables

Source: Ade's fables

“Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.”

Source: Greek and Roman Lives

“In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.”

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Book:The Prince and the Pauper

Source: The Prince and the Pauper

“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call ourselves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.”

Source: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished But Himself with an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates, Written by Himself

“Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations - and seen them die, and seen new ones born again - Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.”

Men Dies Born Race Cities Too Much Land Return Civilization Warm Mood Cynical Indifferent Cradle Born Again Weariness Fickle Dispassionate

Author:Beryl Markham

“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

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Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.”

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Author:Lee Child

“Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.”

Bigs Left Realizing Born Cities New York Expectations New York City

Author:Joseph Pisani

“Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.”

People Born Cities

Author:Elizabeth Lowell

“I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.”

Men Years Father Born Cities Poverty New York Smart Backgrounds Grades New York City Academic Fifth Plumber Fifth Grade Smart Man

Author:Leonard Susskind

“Satire is born of the cities it denounces.”

Born Cities Satire

Author:Mason Cooley

“A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.”

“I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.”

Born Cities New York Birth Train New York City Womb Wire Pipe Tunnels Born Again Canals

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.”

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.”

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Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.”

Mind Art Culture Born Views Cities Modern Periods Architecture Capture Vienna

Author:Eric Kandel

“I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.”

Years Long Artist Born Interesting Cities Tradition My Family Towns Painter Scholar Very Interesting Dynasty Shanghai

Author:I. M. Pei

“As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard work laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today. Whether someone is born here, or comes here for college, career, or retirement, I want L.A. to be a place that welcomes all generations.”

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Author:Eric Garcetti

“I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.”

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Author:Adrienne Bailon

“I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.”

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Author:Beth Orton

“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

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Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus