#born

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America. ↗

— Herman Cain

#africa #america #ancestors #back #black

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#day #his #history #life #man

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#begins #born #catalogue #cities #city

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#born #child #children #deeply #first

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#born #i #i was born #london #raised

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#ballet #being #body #born #completely

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#born #country #english #feel #france

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. ↗

— Truman Capote

#does #fine #just #knowing #laws

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. ↗

— George Carlin

#born #freak #front #get #row

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ↗

— Emily Carr

#big #born #dialect #different #half