There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain... →
Graham Swift
Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
Charles R. Swindoll
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Publilius Syrus
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring.... →
Wislawa Szymborska
'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.
I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black... →
Ice T
Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was... →
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
Antonio Tabucchi
I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he... →
Matt Taibbi
There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change... →
Daniel Tammet