I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.
It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.
I was born in L.A. In Santa Monica, actually.
When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.
I was a born rock n' roll sax player.
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
When my country was born, many people were sceptical about the chances for us to exist, let alone prosper.
I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.
I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?
I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.
I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.
Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'
I was born into an artistic family, and they understood me. But they were really worried, because some of the stuff I did was dangerous. If I'd been caught without the veil with a shaved head, I don't know what would have happened.
