“I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.” BelieveHas BeensNightBornRecordsCryStrikesClockTwelveFriday Book:The Works of Charles Dickens Source: The Works of Charles Dickens
“The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.” WorldSongBornRoomsFictionRecordsNeededComputerPhonesChanging The WorldTied Author:Steve Jobs
“Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.” SoundBornRecordsDyingPagesDisappearLiteracyPrinted Author:Nancy Newhall
“It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred records of their country are but collections of myths and fables.” PeopleGivingCountryHardFatherBornRecordsGiving UpSacredMythCollectionsMistakenFables Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.” FirstsWellsLongHas BeensShowsMightTogetherJobsBornTakenRecordsCenturyExampleKingsOne DaySucceedPreparedDecadesPreparationQueensCrownsBe PreparedSovereignReign20th CenturyMonarchsParadoxicalIrsBritish HistoryQueen ElizabethAbdicationElizabeth Ii Author:David Cannadine
“... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.” CountrySometimesFactsCertainBornDifferencesReligiousRecordsGroupsCrimePopulationDuesSectionsTwistsSegregationWarpTuberculosisLack Of Education Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!” ThinkingFirstsParentBornDealsRecords Author:Jessica Simpson
“Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.” IfsThinkingWould BeFatherJesusBornRecordsTeachingProveAcceptedBeing TrueProphetDivinityVirgins Author:Christopher Hitchens
“It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? "Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on."” KindBookStuffBornKnownRecordsOne ThingYeahCulinaryLazinessCheeseDishesSheerDistinguishedSaladEntrySignaturesHamburgersPopcorn Author:Paul Newman
“Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.” KindBornMemoriesRecordsChaptersCustodians Author:William Zinsser
“My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.” ChildrenRealDreamPassionBornRecordsListeningGrewGrew UpOperaDreams Came True Author:Andrea Bocelli
“I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.” PeopleThinkingBornCitiesRecordsNew YorkSceneRaisedCaliforniaLos AngelesNew York CityNew YorkersDowntownBorn And Raised Author:Vaginal Davis