When I was born, I had a birth injury in my second and third vertebrae. It gave me what they called spastic paralysis, which is actually cerebral palsy.
I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'
I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.
I was born in L.A. County Hospital, but I grew up in Pasadena. I married my 8th grade sweetheart, Marcia.
I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.
Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.
I remember when I discovered The Beatles with music and The Beatles peaked before I was born and when I discovered them I felt really special.
I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.
I was born in April of 1966, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Soon after, my parents and grandparents all lost personal freedom simply for being intellectuals. So I spent most of my childhood rotating between adopted families of peasants and coalminers.
If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pele.
Obviously, I wasn't born when Pele was playing at World Cups, but I have watched plenty of videos, both of him and other great players.
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
