I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders. — Pat Conroy
I grew up, a kid in New Jersey. I was raised to work for my father when I was four. — Jared Kushner
Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days). — Joe Tex
I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K. — Maajid Nawaz
If you are raised with something, you grow old with it. — Moroccan Proverbs
I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with. — Zinedine Zidane
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. — Willie Stargell
I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since. — Sam Cooke
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family. — Maajid Nawaz
I was born where there were no enclosures. — Geronimo
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. — Terry Gilliam
Short Born And Raised Quotes
I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there. — Peter Agre
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town. — Aaron Paul
Living in Ohio, I grew up an Oakland Raiders fan. — Hugh Douglas
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue. — Irvin S. Cobb
I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since. — Helena Christensen
I'm from where your hustle determines your salary. — Rick Ross
I grew up with reggae music. — Youssou N'Dour
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town. — Sadie Frost
But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background. — Tim McGraw
I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth. — Boozoo Chavis
Born And Raised Image Quotes
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
When You Were Born Quotes
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? — Dr. Seuss
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. — Chief Joseph
You can't blend in when you were born to stand out. — R. J. Palacio
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. — Karl Lagerfeld
When you look at yourself in the mirror, don't pinpoint the things that you aren't happy with. Appreciate what you were born with and acknowledge the fact that you are you, and that is something to celebrate. — Shay Mitchell
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. — American Indian Proverbs
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
You want ApoB to be as close to the level as it was when you were born. So, we start developing heart disease when we're born. That's just the way it is. — Peter Attia
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in a manner so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. — American Proverbs
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying? — Tony Campolo
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. — Robert K. Merton
My Born Place Quotes
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. — Robert Bresson
I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves. — Isadora Duncan
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition. — Paule Marshall
Why fit in when you we born to stand out?
I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor. — Bryce Courtenay
I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world. — Dick Gregory
No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised. — Mitt Romney
The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress.
My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place. — Pierre Berton
So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined. — Stephenie Meyer
I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties. — Augustus Washington
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. — Richard Dawkins
As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world — Buddha
I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States. — Yakubu Gowon
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. — Allen West
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. — Sonia Sotomayor
Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God's grace. — Dwight L. Moody
Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it. — Jason Reitman
If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can’t give a child any greater place from which to fly. — Amanda Bearse
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people. — James A. Michener
I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything. — Pauly D
Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name. — Tupac Shakur
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. — Colin Powell
I'm living in a dream. I really consider myself really lucky. I was born and raised in Guatemala, in a village, where to go to the market you have to take two buses or drive about 20 minutes if you are lucky enough to have a car. I grew up very, very poor and I didn't even know that being an actor could be a career. — Erick Chavarria
We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground. — Steve Reich
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii — Steve Case
People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there. — Jimmy Breslin
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine. — Artie Shaw
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them. — Harry Reid
The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter - the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don't even go to church do go on these days. — Louie Giglio
I get asked to do benefits a lot and I've decided I've got to be a bit more discerning, I can't just do all of them. . . . I got asked to do a benefit for babies born addicted to crack. And I said well, all right, I'll help you raise money for them, but I think we both know what they're gonna spend it on. — Laura Kightlinger
The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy. — Dave Barry
I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church. — Oprah Winfrey
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. — Chely Wright
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19. — Patricia Clarkson
We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland. — Larry Mullen, Jr.
I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless. — will.i.am
One thing I had on my side when it came to How to Make It in America is that I'm a born-and-raised New Yorker. Filming in New York... I'm so thankful and humbled by the whole experience. A lot of it takes place in old neighborhood; I'm an East Village kid, so I get to see my old friends from the neighborhood, my family still lives there. — Victor Rasuk
It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle. — Sam Heughan
I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever. — Frank Gehry
I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles. — Dee Snider
ISIS are actively recruiting Americans. The attacker in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. He was a health inspector; had a newborn child and left all that behind to kill 14 people. — Marco Rubio
Beirut is where I was born and raised. — Reem Acra
The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man. — Michael Gurian
Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world around you and people different than you the less likely you will become an extremist. The Church needs to bring the world together. — Erwin McManus
I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey. — Daisy Fuentes
For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. — Kirstie Alley
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion. — Tom Araya
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg. — Giancarlo Esposito
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion. — Chaka Khan
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