Born And Raised Quotes

• I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Love, Voice, Long

  "Leslie Fiedler Dies at 85; Provocative Literary Critic" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2003.

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• I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

  Jean Plaidy

  Years, Cities, London

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• Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

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• For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, America, Special

  Marco Rubio's keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.

  Sam Heughan

  Sound, Castles, Born

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Country, Kissing, Color

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• She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

  Simone Elkeles

  Football, Blood, Born

  Simone Elkeles (2014). “Better Than Perfect: A Wild Cards Novel”, p.168, A&C Black

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• No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid People, Election, Birth

  "NBC and CBS Pounce on Romney’s Birth Certificate ‘Swipe’ at Obama: ‘Was It a Joke?’". "NBC Nightly News" with David Gregory, www.mrc.org. August 24, 2012.

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• Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

  Sydney Pollack

  Sunday, Weekend, Hiking

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• New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

  Patricia Clarkson

  New Orleans, Born, Raised

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• My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Girl, Blood, London

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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

  Jayne Meadows

  Parent, Born, China

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

  Arthur Rock

  New York, Popcorn, Born

  Interview with Rob Walker in San Francisco, California, as part of The Silicon Genesis Project with Stanford University, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

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• For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

  Kirstie Alley

  Depression, People, Reason

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• The most important to me is, Theo is a good person first and foremost. And I think that has a lot to do with it. He's not deceitful. He's an honest guy, a good guy. There's a lot more to this thing than it being a job for him, being born and raised here, the Red Sox being as important as they are to him. Above all else, Theo understands he's a compromiser. Theo understands that the clubhouse is our home. He doesn't invade that privacy often. When he does, he doesn't make you uncomfortable and that says as much about him as anything.

  Curt Schilling

  Jobs, Lying, Home

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• I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

  Josh Gad

  Spiritual, Religious, Wife

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• I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

  Sally Rand

  Boys, Born, Raised

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• I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

  John Fogerty

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

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• I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Cities, Uptown

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• So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

  Amy Waldman

  Virginia, Names, Design

  "Journalist Amy Waldman". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything.

  Pauly D

  Italian, Tanning, Lifestyle

  "Jersey Shore. A New Family. Season 1", 2009 - 2012.

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• The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and there’s a certain attitude that comes across in the songs and the way that they’re performed. I’m born and raised in the Midwest, and my family’s been here for generations. This is where I’m from and how I think, and that’s reflected in the music I make.

  Pokey LaFarge

  Song, Attitude, Thinking

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• I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, Racist, Environment

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• I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

  Olivier Martinez

  Class, Paris, Born

  "Olivier Martinez: Liberté, Egalité, Sensualité - Enter a New International Heartthrob". Interview with Vince Passaro, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2002.

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• I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

  Aida Turturro

  New York, Italian, Sides

  "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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