Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.
Brandon Flowers
TiredParentsSmallVegasBornUtah
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
Montesquieu
KnowledgeAloneBelieveBornLimit
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.
Charlie Parker
MeBornPlayRightLineHigh
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
John Ralston Saul
ChildBornParadiseYearsFortunate
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
Carol Burnett
FunnyHumorPeopleThinkYouBorn
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad
GoodWaitingPeopleFateBornEarth
I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog whilst out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.
Paula Radcliffe
DogBeginningTrainingYearBorn
From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and humiliate us, and the cynical western powers, who would rather see us ruled by criminals loyal to them than have democratically elected leaders accountable to us.
Hisham Matar
BornDefeatedTwoSeeCynicalUs
I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale.
John Gurdon
SmallStrongDoingBornThingsBeen
When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.
Nick Nolte
WarWorldBornKnowKidHim
My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.
Roz Chast
DepressionParentsCollegeBornPoor
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
S. Jay Olshansky
LiveWorldRiseBornPricePay
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser
EducationManCareerBornDesire
Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.
Mark Zandi
GreatDepressionMaturityEarlyBorn
I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
Charles Keating
BornLondonI Was BornEnglandWhich
I sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.
Amitabh Bachchan
FeelBornSometimesControversyBeen
I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.
Agnes Martin
EgoThinkBornEveryoneAdjustment
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.
Joni Mitchell
BirthdayStarsInnovationBornWhy
We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.
Sheena Iyengar
ChooseSeeingBornDesireKnowOur
I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.
Henry Ian Cusick
HomeTimeI AmLongBornLong Time
When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.
John Darnielle
FamilyYouBornAgainstShowbiz
The word 'hackathon' was born out of 'marathon' for a reason. It's exhausting.
Neil Blumenthal
BornMarathonReasonOutWord
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Rumi
LoveMotherLove IsBornOur
I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank - I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry - for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Saint Patrick
LifeFatherI AmSorryShortBorn
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