Quotes About Birthplace

You come to Oklahoma to beat Texas. I was born and raised in Austin. They didn't recruit me. I grew up 15 miles from their campus. I can't stand them.

I was born in Dallas; then I moved to Allen, Texas. But then I got sent to boarding school, where I started to get fascinated with actors like Al Pacino.

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.

I was born in Texas, you know. I was born in Houston.

This, it occurred to me, was the deeper meaning in the mournful merriment I had been part of that day. I stood at Mam's sink before bedtime, filling an iced tea glass with water, thinking that I had underestimated this place where I was born. I knew it was a good place to be from. I had no idea how great a place it was to be.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the County of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

What makes an American…is not the name or the blood or even the place of birth, but the belief in the principles of freedom and equality that this country stands for.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer.

My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

North Carolina - our great state - means everything to me. I was born, raised, and educated here. I started and raised my own family here. And as Governor, I want to build a state where all North Carolinians are afforded the opportunities I've had.

I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.

I was born and raised in Denver, CO.

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.